L’elemento visivo come strumento per narrare la Shoah. Su alcuni saggi e racconti di Zsófia Bán

Abstract

Article english title: Visual Elements Used to Narrate the Shoah. On Some Essays and Short Stories by Zsófia Bán

In this article, I propose a cross-reading of some essays and short stories by the Hungarian writer Zsófia Bán that revolve around the same thematic and formal research core: the memory of the Shoah as it is configured in the complex relationship between individual and collective memory, as well as in the question of its representability and narratability. I will show how the concepts of denied narration and projection, proposed and explored by Bán in her non-fiction reflections inspired in particular by the theoretical work of Marianne Hirsch, have repercussions on the narrative strategies implemented by Bán. These narrative strategies may produce an interesting effect of mimesis of memory, as well as question the actual correspondence between memory and reality, or propose the use of visual elements with a metonymic function to overcome the limits of the sayable.