«To those who don’t deserve the truth, don’t give it». On the possibility to fictionalize the Real and its sequels in Cynthia Ozick’s The Shawl
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fictions of the Holocaust, untellibility and representation of the Real, Cynthia Ozick.
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The two short stories included in The Shawl show the atrocity of the death camps («The Shawl») and a survivor’s subsequent alienation («Rosa»). Though built upon historic materials, both themes are reworked from a fictional perspective. The paper will try to discern the ethical legitimacy and possibility of an aesthetical representation of the Holocaust and its consequences. Facing the rigorism of History, Literature should be able to communicate and make understandable whatever it could have happened, if not what really happened. But whenever the Real resists to be expressed in words, not even the fiction can reveal that which resists any kind of representation.Downloads
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2017-04-24
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Soto Gámez R. (2017). «To those who don’t deserve the truth, don’t give it». On the possibility to fictionalize the Real and its sequels in Cynthia Ozick’s The Shawl. Revista de Filología Románica, 33, 213-221. https://doi.org/10.5209/RFRM.55850
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