Original scientific paper

https://doi.org/10.32728/studpol/2020.09.01.01

Cinzia Gallo orcid.org/0000-0001-8064-7012 ; Università di Catania

Abstract

Lo Spasimo di Palermo is example of a crisis that has repercussions
on the expressive form: on the one hand, the consciousness that «sul ciglio
dell’abisso la parola si raggela, si fa […] simbolo sfuggente» comes out, on
the other hand novel seems a «genere scaduto, corrotto, impraticabile».
The generational conflict between Chino and Mauro is included in
this sphere too. Hence it follows many solutions that lead to Consolo’s
«poema narrativo» and testify the prevailing disorientation: paratactic
accumulation, metaphors, literary quotations, figures of speech. Pictorial
suggestions find its centre in Raphael’s Lo Spasimo di Sicilia, symbol of a
pain that from Palermo arrives to Sicily and all world, while the spaces have
a great importance and show the loss of historical memory, responsible for
crisis.

Keywords

Consolo; crisis; memory; history

Hrčak ID:

246620

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/246620

Publication date:

24.11.2020.

Article data in other languages: italian

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