Abstract
The French historian and art critic Georges Didi-Huberman has a vast and profound theoretical trajectory devoted to examining the role of images in the legibility of history. In several of his essays, he sets about to reflect on the problems surrounding the representation of the Shoah and the ways in which the images related to this limit event deepen the senses of what is depicted. We aim to propose a reading of the short story "Helga", by Lygia Fagundes Telles, in the light of the concept of image conceived by Didi-Huberman in texts devoted to the experience of the Shoah. Our focus is, above all, on the centrality of the body in Lygia Fagundes' short story as a symptom image, which gives the weight of meaning to the narrative for what is missing, for what has been mutilated.
Keywords:
body; image; Shoah; Georges Didi-Huberman; Lygia Fagundes Telles