Connecting
" The most horrible thing doesn’t have to be physical suffering,
but what does this pain cause in ordinary men?
Primo Levi
Writing Styles
Primo Levi
Throughout his book, Primo Levi uses a neutral tone as he reports the horrible facts of a massacre, great and innocent. It was called Auschwitz and the life one does not have there without totally rejecting the cruelty of the Nazis." Hatred is personal, said against a person, a face; but our persecutors had no name, no face, they were distant, invisible, inaccessible." He thus alternates the "I" of the t more, placing the reader as a spectator of his story, with a post laughing "we", obliging us to feel concerned, r fl chir.Robert Antelme
Robert Antelme, meanwhile, uses an ironic tone since he adopts the SS id ology. Of this way, he shows and acknowledges the absurdity of their words." His son, Hitl Rienne Youth, is now wearing the uniform with the dagger and the armband; he limps a little, stiffening him. He has a small, unsightly face like a hairless idiot. Rarely have we seen one so beautiful." He adopts a crude and r alist philosophy that uses colloquial, vulgar language. Some of his "words" are frank and taunt him with their collar.
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Charlotte Delbo
In contrast to these two men, Charlotte Delbo adopts a more poetic genre with free prose and verse. She rarely uses the "I" because the "we" and the "one" express the universality of misfortune, of suffering: "Did you know that in the morning we want to die / That in the evening we are afraid," "They put our mothers naked before us." The "you" is also used to accuse the reader, to make him guilty: "O you who know," "What tears will you have," "Will you weep?"
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Conclusion
Although their styles are different, these three crivains report with just as much movement on life in the camps. Their writing methods do not have the same impact on readers: for example, some will write about the poetry of Charlotte Delbo, others will write about the poetry of Robert Antelme or even the poetry of Primo Levi. Of course, there are many other ways to write about the horror of the camps, to talk, to tell stories, to mock things.