Rana kot portal sočutja: soočanje s travmo koncentracijskih taborišč v romanu Čudovite zelene oči Arnošta Lustiga in noveli Bolečina Marguerite Duras

Zakrajšek, Liu (author), Matajc, Vanesa (mentor), Hribar Sorčan, Valentina (mentor)

V pričujočem diplomskem delu bom prek analize romana Čudovite zelene oči (Krásné zelené oči, 1996) Arnošta Lustiga in novele Bolečina Marguerite Duras (La Douleur, 1985) tematizirala pojem pričevanja o travmi nacističnih koncentracijskih taborišč druge svetovne vojne v literaturi in zakaj je prav literarni jezik ta, v katerem se s travmo, glede na njene psihološke mehanizme, najuspešneje soočimo. Fikcija nam omogoči, da se spopademo s ponavljajočim se podoživljanjem travmatičnega dogodka – in šele pričevanje o bolečini omogoči njeno preobrazbo.

• Language: Slovenian
• Keywords: Arnošt Lustig, Marguerite Duras, travma, pripoved, spomin, etika spominjanja, Sigmund Freud, Cathy Caruth, Paul Ricoeur
• Work type: Bachelor thesis/paper
• Organization: FF - Faculty of Arts
• Year: 2021
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-131223
• Publication date in RUL: 23.09.2021

Secondary language

• Language: English
• Title: The Wound as Portal of Compassion: facing concentration camps trauma in the novel Lovely Green Eyes by Arnošt Lustig and in Marguerite Duras' novella The War

Abstract

In the following research I will be exploring the notion of literary testimony in relation to the trauma of Second World War Nazi concentration camps, by analysing two works of fiction: Lovely Green Eyes (Krásné zelené oči, 1996) by Arnošt Lustig and The War: A Memoir (La Douleur, 1985), by Marguerite Duras. I will attempt to show why literature is the means through which we are best capable of facing trauma, regarding its psychological mechanisms. Fiction enables us to face the repetitive re-living of the traumatic event – and it is only throught testimony of suffering that suffering may be transformed.

• Keywords: Arnošt Lustig, Marguerite Duras, trauma, narrative, memory, ethics of memory, Sigmund Freud, Cathy Caruth, Paul Ricoeur