Letteratura ed esperienze estreme. A proposito di Max Aub e Jorge Semprún (Seconda parte)

Abstract

Letteratura ed esperienze estreme. A proposito di Max Aub e Jorge Semprún

The Anti-Francoist writers, who have lived some extreme experience, such as imprisonment in the French or German concentration camps, the Comisarias’ torture or the hard jail in Spain, have tackled the painful subject of their own vivencia in many works, writing plain memoirs or reworking it in fictional way. In any case the relationship with the writing has had to evercome the tale’s unutterable contents, the presumed impossibility to transmit atrocious realities, the conflict between aesthetics and matter of the telling. Emblematic of such a conflict — settled — between literature and extreme axperiences are the works by Max Aub and Jorge Semprún.