By turning truth into vision, the Italian writer Roberto Saviano, with the publication of Gomorra. Dans l’empire de la camorra in 2006 (2007 in French translation), a novel that tells the story of the power dynamics of camorra, has shaken up the international journalistic and literary panorama. The book
lays the foundations for a new way of describing reality. The investigation becomes a literary discourse that relies on the word power and on the “I” of the author, an “I” that witnesses the search for an element of attraction that gives credibility to the story and ratifies a truth that would have otherwise been lost in the monotonous enunciation of the chronicle. In fact, in this case, the ethical result of the discourse is not achieved in the conformity between words and facts, but it becomes a guarantee that these words and facts will remain indelible in the memory. Gomorra outlines a documentary aesthetic which, using a new form of writing, transforms statistics, objective data and everyday life through a discourse that connects literature, anthropology, and sociology. The novelist’s subjectivity then becomes a witness and a symbol as well. In this sense, our study focuses on the analysis of subjectivity in the discourse Kerbrat-Orecchioni 2009), through the enunciator’s marks that create to the discourse of testimony. In addition, we will highlight the way how the author represents the complex reality of the camorra to the readers, which also earns him criticism during his reception in France
