By investigating the metaphorical connection between bloodletting and the act of writing and drawing, this thesis examines the effects and potential dangers of bearing witness and recording witness testimonials as it is experienced by first-generation and second-generation Holocaust witnesses/authors respectively. Primo Levi’s works as well as biographical records documenting his life and death are examined as the primary sources for the analysis of the survivor or first-generation witness/author. Art Spiegelman’s graphic novels Maus and Maus II provide the source materials for the exploration of the second or ‘postmemory’ generation’s experience with recording their own inherited transgenerational trauma. To support this metaphorical and theoretical framework, I will engage the theories of Janet McCord and her study on suicide and Holocaust survivors as well as employ the works of Sigmund Freud, Dominick LaCapra, Cathy Caruth and Marianne Hirsch in relation to their work on cultural trauma and memory. / Graduate

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O estudo analisa o romance Capão pecado, de Ferréz, publicado originalmente em 2000. A obra foi noticiada em um grande jornal do país antes mesmo de ser publicada e ganhou grande repercussão pelo fato de ter sido escrita por um jovem morador desempregado da periferia da zona sul paulistana, região marcada por altos índices de violência, entre outras mazelas sociais, onde a literatura nunca houvera sido um meio de expressão familiar. O discurso do autor, imbuído de uma missão de representar vivências até então excluídas da cena literária, e do processo simbólico de maneira geral, a partir de um ponto de vista interno, parece imporse como mediação de seu texto, estabelecendo com o leitor o que chamo de pacto de verossimilhança, marcado pelo teor testemunhal como componente. O reconhecimento do extra-literário como fator determinante e intrínseco à fruição estética do objeto analisado, no entanto, não diminui o caráter decisivo de sua elaboração ficcional, como se procurará mostrar. / This study analyzes the novel Capão pecado, by Ferréz, originally published in 2000. The book was reported on in a national newspaper even before publication and gained widespread attention because it was written by a young, unemployed resident of the poor areas in the south of the city of São Paulo, a region marked by high rates of violent crime and other social dysfunctions, a place where literature had never been a common form of expression. Inspired by a mission to show experiences that had, up to that point, been excluded from the literary scene and from the symbolic process in general, the author used an internal point-of-view that seems to function as a mediation on his own writing, creating a so-called agreement of verisimilitude. An important component of this project is the desire to bear witness. As will be demonstrated, however, the author\'s recognition that extra-literary factors are fundamental and intrinsic to the aesthetic elaboration of the object he is analyzing does not, however, diminish the decisive character of his fictional work.

O estudo analisa o romance Capão pecado, de Ferréz, publicado originalmente em 2000. A obra foi noticiada em um grande jornal do país antes mesmo de ser publicada e ganhou grande repercussão pelo fato de ter sido escrita por um jovem morador desempregado da periferia da zona sul paulistana, região marcada por altos índices de violência, entre outras mazelas sociais, onde a literatura nunca houvera sido um meio de expressão familiar. O discurso do autor, imbuído de uma missão de representar vivências até então excluídas da cena literária, e do processo simbólico de maneira geral, a partir de um ponto de vista interno, parece imporse como mediação de seu texto, estabelecendo com o leitor o que chamo de pacto de verossimilhança, marcado pelo teor testemunhal como componente. O reconhecimento do extra-literário como fator determinante e intrínseco à fruição estética do objeto analisado, no entanto, não diminui o caráter decisivo de sua elaboração ficcional, como se procurará mostrar. / This study analyzes the novel Capão pecado, by Ferréz, originally published in 2000. The book was reported on in a national newspaper even before publication and gained widespread attention because it was written by a young, unemployed resident of the poor areas in the south of the city of São Paulo, a region marked by high rates of violent crime and other social dysfunctions, a place where literature had never been a common form of expression. Inspired by a mission to show experiences that had, up to that point, been excluded from the literary scene and from the symbolic process in general, the author used an internal point-of-view that seems to function as a mediation on his own writing, creating a so-called agreement of verisimilitude. An important component of this project is the desire to bear witness. As will be demonstrated, however, the author\'s recognition that extra-literary factors are fundamental and intrinsic to the aesthetic elaboration of the object he is analyzing does not, however, diminish the decisive character of his fictional work.