ABSTRACT
A simple perusal of the history of Western culture would show the importance literature and art have always had in the representation of suffering. The potential for resilience and working through of psychic trauma by means of different literary manifestations and artistic expressions has been amply documented throughout centuries. Trauma paradigm shift would explain the transference of interest in “the trauma question” from corporative and socio-political fields like industry, bureaucracy, medicine, law and social welfare to the cultural and literary realms. L. Boltanski’s and P. Levi’s view on the importanceof putting suffering into words is echoed by Geoffrey Hartman in “Trauma within the Limits of Literature”. The primary definition of “victim” that appears in the 2018 edition of the Oxford Living English Dictionaries reads as follows: “A person harmed, injured, or killed as a result of a crime, accident, or other event or action.”.
