THE WORD "PROGRESS": IS THERE LIFE BEYOND DEATH? IS THERE LIFE BEYOND WAR? Cover Image

LA PAROLA “PROGRESSO”: C’È VITA OLTRE LA MORTE? C’È VITA OLTRE LA GUERRA?
THE WORD "PROGRESS": IS THERE LIFE BEYOND DEATH? IS THERE LIFE BEYOND WAR?

Author(s): Edoardo Giorgi
Subject(s): French Literature, Romanian Literature, Wars in Jugoslavia
Published by: Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai
Keywords: drama; Yugoslavian wars; physical dispossession; “wild capitalism”;

Summary/Abstract: The Word "Progress": Is There Life Beyond Death? Is There Life Beyond War? This article’s purpose is to analyze as thoroughly as possible one of the most interesting dramas of the well-known French-Romanian dramatist Matei Vişniec. This work is based on some of the most horrible events that happened during and after the Yugoslavian wars and it narrates a global experience – on many semantic levels and utilizing hermeneutical instruments – throughout the story of a single family, making, in the process, stand out in a clearer way the rich relations between the living and the phantasmatic category of the “living-dead” that continues to communicate with the former. I’ve operated, to shed a light on those phenomena, an analysis based on some anthropological studies that take in exam the violence’s dynamics, but also, of course, I’ve used many auxiliary studies published in Italy and France, that analyze more in detail the drama in question. But the peculiarity of my study is to apply some of the anthropological aspects of war and to collocate this work in the context in which it belongs, demonstrating also how the dramatist has done some thorough research before composing the drama.

  • Issue Year: 67/2022
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 357-377
  • Page Count: 21
  • Language: Italian
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