No matarás: los mandatos éticos del rostro en Soldados de Salamina (2001) y La sombra de Heidegger (2005)

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https://doi.org/10.18192/rceh.v45i2.6689

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This article undertakes a comparative study of the novels Soldados de Salamina (2001) by Javier Cercas and La sombra de Heidegger (2005) by José Pablo Feinmann, drawing on Emmanuel Levinas’s philosophical approach to face-to-face relations in his existential phenomenology. It examines how the novels portray the face of the other as a form of discourse that establishes a possible relationship between literature and philosophical ethics. The article also explores how hybridity of genre, namely, the meta-historiographic character of the narrative in Cercas and the essay within the novel in the case of Feinmann, leads to a critical engagement with the privileged principle found in Levinas’s ethics: Thou shall not kill.

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2023-06-05

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