Abstract
In this article we discuss issues about the ethical role of creation and imagination in the face of disaster remains. We examine the theoretical articulations within the reflections on the concepts of testimony and place of speech, putting them into perspective as regards remembering or retelling the hard times. To this end, we identify aporetic creases in these concepts, which insist on exploring the place of reading and of reader before a paradoxical time that also stands as production and invention of the present time. We explore the possible articulations between time, imagination, image, catastrophe and responsibility, resulting in an ethical point of view broadened by the act of creation, which considers reading as a producer of memory.
Keywords:
listening; memory; history; image; imagination