Buzzati and Nabokov: It is not about desire. (November 2022)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- Buzzati and Nabokov: It is not about desire. (November 2022)
- Main Title:
- Buzzati and Nabokov: It is not about desire
- Authors:
- Castelli, Alberto
- Abstract:
- Dino Buzzati's Un Amore has been largely defined as a consequence of the progressive development of the phenomenon of "lolitism, " and a few years before, Nabokov's Lolita had been accused of being an example of pedophilia. While both female characters are archetypes of "nymphet, " defiant, sexually promiscuous, capricious, and, above all, skilled in manipulation, the relationship progresses through a labyrinth of absence and deprivation. However, in order to place the novels in a proper perspective, we must avoid any intrusion into the authors' private sexuality, and search for the aesthetic phenomenon thereby implied. Written from the male's perspective, women are a riddle but their age offers a key to understanding: youth's artful image can grant the illusion of immortality before death.
- Is Part Of:
- Forum Italicum. Volume 56:Number 3(2022)
- Journal:
- Forum Italicum
- Issue:
- Volume 56:Number 3(2022)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 56, Issue 3 (2022)
- Year:
- 2022
- Volume:
- 56
- Issue:
- 3
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2022-0056-0003-0000
- Page Start:
- 341
- Page End:
- 355
- Publication Date:
- 2022-11
- Subjects:
- alienation -- Buzzati -- existentialism -- Lolita -- pedophilia
Italian language -- Periodicals
Italian literature -- History and criticism -- Periodicals
Italian literature -- 20th century -- Periodicals
Italy -- Civilization -- Periodicals
850.5 - Journal URLs:
- http://foi.sagepub.com/ ↗
http://www.uk.sagepub.com ↗ - DOI:
- 10.1177/00145858221117817 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 0014-5858
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- Legaldeposit
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