Literatura y cine: Noche y niebla e Hiroshima mon amour
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Corporación Universitaria Remington
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En Noche y niebla (1955) e Hiroshima mon amour (1958), el director Alain Resnais, con los guiones de Jean Cayrol y de Marguerite Duras, respectivamente, confronta al espectador con imágenes que tocan lo real: en la primera producción, enormes establos donde se procede con extremo sentido del orden –a nombre de la higiene y manteniendo una estricta jerarquía− a la reducción del hombre a la condición de pieza o cosa, sometida a la desnudez, al rapado, el marcaje en la carne, la sustitución del nombre por un número… Es lo inimaginable del terror que se hace cotidiano en ese «nuevo planeta moderno», como advierte Cayrol. Y en la segunda película, también las imágenes tocan lo real y arden: por el deseo pese a la destrucción, por el dolor que sacude la cordura, y por la memoria/olvido y su vocación de supervivencia. Interesa en este texto resaltar la potencia crítica, es decir, el saber calcinante y resistente alcanzado por la imagen poética, literaria y cinematográfica ante lo real de la aniquilación.
In Night and fog (1955) and Hiroshima mon amour (1958), the director, Alain Resnais, with scripts by Jean Cayrol and Marguerite Duras, respectively, confronts the viewer with images touching the real. In the first production, huge barns are shown where human beings are reduced, with an extreme sense of order –for the sake of hygiene and maintaining a strict hierarchy−, to the status of a piece or thing. They are stripped naked, forced to shave their heads, their skin is branded and their names are replaced with numbers... It is the unimaginable of terror turned into a daily occurrence in that «new modern planet» as Cayrol warns. In the second film, the images also touch the real and burn: with desire in spite of destruction, with pain shaking sanity and with memory/oblivion and its vocation of survival. This paper aims to highlight the critical power, that is, the scorching and enduring knowledge attained by the poetic, literary and film image before the real of annihilation
In Night and fog (1955) and Hiroshima mon amour (1958), the director, Alain Resnais, with scripts by Jean Cayrol and Marguerite Duras, respectively, confronts the viewer with images touching the real. In the first production, huge barns are shown where human beings are reduced, with an extreme sense of order –for the sake of hygiene and maintaining a strict hierarchy−, to the status of a piece or thing. They are stripped naked, forced to shave their heads, their skin is branded and their names are replaced with numbers... It is the unimaginable of terror turned into a daily occurrence in that «new modern planet» as Cayrol warns. In the second film, the images also touch the real and burn: with desire in spite of destruction, with pain shaking sanity and with memory/oblivion and its vocation of survival. This paper aims to highlight the critical power, that is, the scorching and enduring knowledge attained by the poetic, literary and film image before the real of annihilation
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film making, literature, Resnais, Duras, Cayrol, concentration camps, World War II, Film making, Literature, cinematografía, literatura, Resnais, Duras, Cayrol, campos de concentración, Segunda Guerra Mundial, Cine, Literatura, Campos de concentración, Segunda Guerra Mundial, Resnais