Abstract

TRAVERSO, Enzo. Jean Améry: Between Critical Reason and Despair. Acta poét [online]. 2019, vol.40, n.2, pp.41-60. ISSN 2448-735X.  https://doi.org/10.19130/iifl.ap.2019.2.855.

This article examines the writings of Jean Améry (Austria, 1912-1978), an Auschwitz survivor who through fiction and self-referential essay explored the catastrophe of the contemporary world. The autobiographical elements in his work constitute the real matter that Améry turned into a “contemplative essay”. He did not believe in the therapeutic virtue of memory, but rather only in his own experience and resentment —as portrayed by Frantz Fanon— as the breaking points and promontories from which he could observe the most ill-fated events of the past.

Keywords : Améry; self-referentiality; Auschwitz; testimony; exile.

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