Cartografias do não-espaço: Viagens ao fim do mundo na literatura do Holocausto

Abstract

Beginning with a preliminary reflection on the concept of ‘fluid cartography’, this article addresses the topos of the journey in the literature of the Holocaust. The article analyses three novels, by Jorge Semprun, Albert Drach and H.G. Adler, and concludes that the radical inversion of one of the central topoi of modernity in these works points to modes of representing space which bear paradigmatic witness to the prevalence of frontiers which it is impossible to cross.

Keywords

• Holocaust
• journey
• Jorge Semprun
• Albert Drach
• H. G. Adler