El juramento y la historia. Sobre Oblivion de Edda Fabbri

  • Salvi, Luca
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Publication date
September 2016
Publisher
Coordinamento SIBA - Università del Salento

Abstract

Abstract – The genre of testimony troubles any attempt at classification and categorization. From a linguistic perspective, testimonial language seems to be suspended within an aporistic oscillation between the two opposite directions of historiographical objectivity and the first person pre-eminence, which shapes the whole discursive structure and function of this genre. Furthermore, this oscillation between the historiographical form and the writing of the self leads to the dialectical movement between two different kinds of truth: a historical truth – which is one of the explicit goals of these texts – as opposed to an aesthetical one, which is another unquestionable concern for this kind of writing. Nevertheless, the oscillation between...

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