L'uomo inquieto: Identitá e alteritá nell'opera di Antonio Tabucchi

ISBN-13: 9788763502443 / Włoski / Miękka / 2005 / 157 str.

Pia Schwarz Lausten

Opis

The work of Antonio Tabucchi, one of Italys greatest contemporary writers, is permeated with the topic of individual identity. His texts query the self-perception, the relation with the Other and the relation with the historical and cultural world while expressing at all these levels an experience of dissolution. Luomo inquieto. Identit e alterit nellopera di Antonio Tabucchi (The Anxious Man. Identity and Alterity in the Work of A. Tabucchi) offers a textual analysis of a series of figures and motives using M. Bachtins concept of dialogism and G. Vattimos weak thought a starting point. The first one serves to define the narrating subject in Tabucchis texts, the second concept describes the position of the subject of Postmodernity. The topic of the dissolution of identity has often caused the categorization of Tabucchi as a postmodernist author. However, this book emphazises that this very topic belongs first and foremost to the great Modernist literature from the beginnin