Forms of resistance: the Dialectic of Escape and Word in the Work To the end of the land, by David Grossman

Abstract

The present article proposes a reflection about the dialectic of escape and word as forms of resistance adopted by the main character of the narrative To the end of the land (2011), by the Israeli writer David Grossman. Through an analytic-interpretive look, it is intended to think of the mother's departure movement not as pure escapism, in the sense of avoiding confrontation with her devastating reality, but as an unequivocal way of resisting. The role of language in the novel is also an object of study in this article, which, through the spoken word, also does not constitute a mere substitution of the physical presence of the child, but rather as an animus, that is, as the generating force of the life which does not exist.