MEMORY, TRAUMA AND LITERATURE
MEMORY, TRAUMA AND LITERATURE

Summary/Abstract: The article focuses on our current comprehension of war trauma. We try to have a good perception on how experiences of war impact on memory. Millions of people are affected by the trauma of war. The effects of traumatic war experience may be recorded through history or, particularly, through literature. This study argues that, in order to recognize the war trauma, it is critical to develop an understanding not only on the individual perspective but also on how literature influences the outcome of an individual's experience or impacts on the entire society with the special purpose to not forget the past. It is, in fact, the battle for the aesthetic recovery of a traumatized time. The analyze of diaries, memories, novels can be subordinated to the phenomenological method, that intends to cover the meaning of phenomena lived by the authors, through the description of their personal experiences. The research also discusses the construct of post-traumatic stress disorder and how this mental condition occurred in a few famous novels related to The First World War, whose authors were on the battlefield. In this regard, we mention: Camil Petrescu and Hortensia Ppadat-Bengescu, in Romanian literature and: Ernst Jünger, Erich Maria Remarque, et al., in foreign literature.

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