A humanity with all faculties intact: awakening from the immanence of war

Introduction to Dossier

Abstract

The essays about the ways and forms of conflict representation introduced in the Dossier outline a broad research space, in critical approaches, in the disciplines involved, in textual choices. An awareness emerges: it is through the literary work, in artistic expression - in the choice to give an account and form of an experience, or a fact, as decisive, terrible and so tragically human as war, through writing, and that is with an operation of reflection and stylization - that humanity can, precisely, recompose itself, rediscovering, splintered and cracked, but perhaps still intact, all its faculties, as happens to Sergeant X in J. D. Sainger's short story For Esmé–with Love and Squalor.