REPRESENTANDO O IRREPRESENTÁVEL: O TESTEMUNHO DA GUERRA NO “MANUSCRITO CUERVO” DE MAX AUB

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Abstract: The literature of testimony has been subject of numerous investigative works both in literary studies as in other areas of knowledge. This kind of literary production, closely related to history, presents itself in the attempt tore present and recover the memory of traumatic experiences in situations that can be termed as catastrophic, for example, those related to the Holocaust. Dealing specifically with Spanish literature, one can say that there are some authors, among them Max Aub, who wrote testimonial works of strongly tone, representing not only the experiences of World War II, but also those related to the Spanish civil war or Franco’s dictatorship. In Manuscrito Cuervo: historia de Jacobo, Max Aub uses literature as an art, to represent the testimony of the experiences that thousands of people in Nazi concentration camps of World War II have undergone. In this report, endowed with irony and built in a very peculiar way, Aub develops a narrative in which the focus from where the horror of concentration camps is seen far from the human, so it is in an inhuman context, the reader is presented a narrator who is not a man but a crow. From these considerations, it can be said that the aim of this work is to develop a reading of the Manuscrito Cuervo that note show the structure of the text helps to represent the unrepresentable, in other words, it tends to observe how the literary art is used to represent the trauma resulting from concentration camp experiences. KEYWORDS: testimony, memory, Spanish literature