Conclusion: Whose Truth, Whose Power?

Abstract

In the hope that Claude Lévi-Strauss was right when he claimed that “[t]he scientific mind does not so much provide the right answers as ask the right questions” (Lévi-Strauss, 1983, p. 7), I would like to conclude by asking the question that, in a way, has haunted the entire study, but has not yet been explicitly addressed. It is the question that lay at the very beginning of the research for this book and has popped up repeatedly at different stages of work, namely: what role can literature, what role can fiction play in a society’s dealing with its violent past?