Intertextualidade entre A menina que roubava livros e É isto um homem?: o papel da literatura e outras considerações

Abstract

Based on intertextuality, this work focuses on the novel The Book Thief, a bestseller by the Australian writer Markus Zusak, and If This Is A Man?, a classic exponent of testimonial literature, an autobiography by the Italian writer Primo Levi. An interesting dialogue between corpora reverberates questions about the role and importance of reading, writing and literature for society and for the individual inserted in it. It addresses issues such as trauma, necropolitics, testimony, passing through concepts such as “gray zone” (Primo Levi), “double bind” (Márcio Seligmann-Silva), among others. Composed of four chapters, the present one also contemplates the symbology of colors and imagology as ways to establish and enhance meanings, as well as to reflect on the image of otherness. Aislan Macieira, Antoine Compagnon, Antonio Candido, Eric Hobsbawm, Giorgio Agamben, Hannah Arendt, María Teresa Andruetto and Robert Gellately are some of the names that form the theoretical basis of this thesis.