{"product_id":"taemoignage-en-raesistance-paperback","title":"Taemoignage En Raesistance - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePhilippe Mesnard\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe experience of the concentration camps is generally considered unspeakable. Yet numerous texts, works and films have tried to offer testimonies in various forms. Based on a wide ranging corpus, both literary and cinematic, Philippe Mesnard explores the forms of expression that are used by the witnesses, writers and artists. He distinguishes four principal forms of testimony: realist writing - a supposedly transparent form of expression (Vassili Grossman, David Rousset amongst others); 'transcendent' writing, that transposes reality onto a symbolic scene (as in \u003ci\u003eLe dernier des Justes\u003c\/i\u003e by André Schwartz-Bart or \u003ci\u003eLa vita e bella\u003c\/i\u003e by Roberto Benigni); The 'critical form' that integrates loss and grief in its space (in Imre Kertész, Robert Antelme or Claude Lanzmann's works for example); and 'phatic' writing, that is emotional and unsettles language to express violence. These various forms create a culture of resistance against those who, in destroying man, also destroyed language. Philippe Mesnard offers a cogent, synthetic and thought-provoking analysis of the polyphonic resistance that the act of testifying creates, between distance and proximity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePhilippe Mesnard is a lecturer in literature who teaches at the \u003ci\u003eHaute École\u003c\/i\u003e in Brussels and at the University of Marne-la-Vallée. He is the author of amongst others \u003ci\u003eConsciences de la Shoah. Critique des discours et des représentations\u003c\/i\u003e (Kimé, 2000), \u003ci\u003eGiorgio Agamben à l'épreuve d'Auschwitz\u003c\/i\u003e (Kimé, 2001), \u003ci\u003eLa Victime écran. La représentation humanitaire en question\u003c\/i\u003e (Textuel, 2002). He was also the editor of two unpublished texts by Primo Levi as well as of the Auschwitz Sonderkommando manuscripts. He curated the exhibitions \u003ci\u003ePrisonniers de l'image\u003c\/i\u003e (France, Italy, 2005) and \u003ci\u003ePrimo Levi. Puisque c'est un homme\u003c\/i\u003e (Italy, France, Germany, 2007).\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 428\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.87 x 8.47 x 5.32 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 21, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48340294172893,"sku":"9782234059986","price":73.79,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0811\/9867\/8237\/files\/hDuU0VtwoE9782234059986.webp?v=1786036912","url":"https:\/\/handfulofbooks.com\/products\/taemoignage-en-raesistance-paperback","provider":"Handful of Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}