The song of Ulysses: the (im)possibility of the narrative in Primo Levi

• Autor(a) principal: Vinicius do Amaral Felipe, Cleber
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: ArtCultura (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://seer.ufu.br/index.php/artcultura/article/view/61856
• topic: Primo Levi; Dante Alighieri; Ulisses; Primo Levi; Dante Alighieri; Ulysses

Ulysses, a multifaceted, cunning and industrious hero, confronted mythological figures as an epic hero (Odyssey), narrated his own death in the condition of a damned soul (Divine comedy) and was transformed into a literary expedient in the writings of Primo Levi, who used this character for represent dramatic experiences involving concentration camps. It is intended to investigate the place of Ulysses and, simultaneously, the role performed by literate culture in Levi's writings. Resuming, analyzing and propagating narratives committed to events that are often the object of historical negationism, as is the case with Shoah, can help us to realize the potential of literature (of testimony or not) and the need to use it in favor not only of the production of knowledge, but also of the production of effects, that it invites the reader to reflect on the prerogatives of his present.