Storm in a Sea of Graves: Aesthetics, Memory and Storytelling at the Memorial tothe Murdered Jews of Europe
This paper aims to meditate on ethical-aesthetical aspects of the “Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe”, in Berlin, based on a multidisciplinary approach, in which particular discussions of the fields of arts, literature and history interact. Formal specificities of the memorial are therefore pu...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2017 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Institución: | Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG) |
| Repositorio: | Arquivo Maaravi: Revista Digital de Estudos Judaicos da UFMG |
| Idioma: | portugués |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:periodicos.ufmg.br:article/14402 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://periodicos.ufmg.br/index.php/maaravi/article/view/14402 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Memória Narração Auschwitz Memory Storytelling |
| Sumario: | This paper aims to meditate on ethical-aesthetical aspects of the “Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe”, in Berlin, based on a multidisciplinary approach, in which particular discussions of the fields of arts, literature and history interact. Formal specificities of the memorial are therefore put in relation: from its concrete presence as a monument, to the long debate on the very possibility of a memory of Auschwitz in which the ethical commitments to remember a past of death and the call to transform life in the present meet. The paper goes on investigating forms of storytelling that take place precisely where “presence” and “image” meet – beetween image and memory –instead of opposing the monument’s materiality to its graveyard metaphor. Finally, as acritical key, the text explores the particular figure of a storyteller who, in the face of the “Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe”, is able to collect the traces of a past which contains within itself its future in the evanescent instant of a bump between life and history. |
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