Deviazione di Luce d’Eramo: il racconto di una (quasi) indicibile deportazione volontaria
Luce d’Eramo lived in Germany in 1944-1945, when she was 18: she arrived as a volunteer worker, was later interned in Dachau, escaping three months later to share the precarious existence of a wandering mass of illegal foreigners under the bombs during the Third Reich. In the autobiographical novel...
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| Language: | fra |
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École Normale Supérieure de Lyon Editions
2020-06-01
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| Series: | Laboratoire Italien |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/laboratoireitalien/4461 |
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| Summary: | Luce d’Eramo lived in Germany in 1944-1945, when she was 18: she arrived as a volunteer worker, was later interned in Dachau, escaping three months later to share the precarious existence of a wandering mass of illegal foreigners under the bombs during the Third Reich. In the autobiographical novel Deviation (1979), she explored little-known aspects of the Nazi camps, such as the social origin of inmates and jailers, and the condition of foreign workers. In Deviation the concentration camp experience is intertwined with the recognition of what happened afterwards: how she repressed the memory of that experience and how it could re-emerge and become the object of writing only after a long period of time. This repression is related to the fact that the protagonist of Deviation is a different deportee: repatriated due to her fascist family after a factory strike organised by the French Resistance, she came across a group of people captured by Nazis in the streets and was arrested along with them, threw away her identity papers and ended up in Dachau. A ‘blind leap forward’, a story so difficult to tell that she ignored it for thirty years. Yet, little by little, she managed to face it through seeking – around herself and within herself – the reasons for her own silence. The unspeakable here does not depend on facts assumed to be beyond words, as it does for Adorno or Wiesel, but centres on the social context and social conscience of the protagonist, and gradually melts to become a vivid, precise tale, that succeeds in sharing an extreme experience, on the path traced by Primo Levi. |
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| ISSN: | 1627-9204 2117-4970 |