Loc.Misiune.Sens.
Place. Mission. Meaning

Summary/Abstract: In a new global context, in which international conflicts are solved mainly through force terrorist attacks have become a new weapon. What will be the place, the topic and the spirit of literature as witness to the catastrophes that destroy mercilessly and deliberately? What is the meaning of witness and testimony? The writers use their imagination to testify and to confer lasting significance to events, reasons, emotions and reactions. It is what Primo Levi, Oe, Ibuse and other writers to in their works of fiction or testimonies on the twentieth century’s horrors. Another aspect – how much is the writer involved in the events about which he writes? The writer as witness/victim/performer brings forward the dualism inwardness-outer world, the essential condition of the writer as witness. Camus, Dostoevsky, Oe, Levi, Proust enter this category. Literature has always been and will be a means for people to rediscover themselves. While not finding definite answers to immediate questions, the writer faces an anthropological approach of a certain historical context and meditates on the fundamental problem: what is life? Gordimer herself is a witness writer of the social and political catastrophe in South Africa.

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