Narrando a queda: temporalidade e trauma em um romance de Michel L:aub

Abstract

Diário da queda’s plot, a 2011 novel by Michel Laub, is built on three generations of a Jewish family; three characters whose existences are defined by their traumatic pasts. These traumatic experiences are the motto of the narrative and influence directly on how the story is told, that is, in the discourse enunciation level and also on the chaining of the narrated events. Given that, the aim of this article is to investigate how the matter of trauma is related to the temporality on the book, acting on the narrative‟s episodic dimension and also motivating some determined and specific characteristics about the novel‟s language. This analysis is theoretically based on mostly the ideas related to narrative temporality put by Peter Brooks in Reading for the Plot (1984) and Paul Ricoeur in Time and narrative, in addition to the matter of trauma narration discussed by Márcio Seligmann-Silva (2003) and the traumatic realism proposed by Hal Foster (2005).