Le différent de la représentation : poétiques de l’expérience concentrationnaire

Abstract

Most of the authors assert that the respect for the experience of a dark event’s victims supposes the refusal of any form of fiction and comment. It would mean the trivialisation of their experience. However, some witnesses assume the shape of fictional narrative to make understand what was lived. They refuse to exclude the victims of the humanity as made them their executioners. This opposite perspectives theorized and embodied by Claude Lanzmann and Robert Antelme, show the possibility of reporting an event of diverse legitimates manners. There would be a plurality of speeches corresponding to various manners to understand a dark life experience and to include it in the history.