Los flecos de la memoria: reconstrucción, autoficción e impostura en el testimonio de Enric Marco

Abstract

Before that his biography revealed as a sham, Enric Marco, until then president of the Amical Mauthausen, was considered one of the survivors who spread better to the world the suffering of the victims of the concentration camps. However, his testimony was erected around an autofiction, created not only from archival documents (history) but also from stories from real survivors (memory), with which Marco managed to shape a new identity and a postmemory that had a huge sociocultural revenue. From the analysis of El impostor (Javier Cercas, 2014) and Ich bin Enric Marco (Santiago Fillol; Lucas Vermal, 2009), this paper aims to reflect on the case Marco and, ultimately, on the lights and shadows of the figure of witness, the (re)construction of identity, the (post)memory and the transmission and communication of the unspeakable.