Il problema dell’ identità oggi: dalla letteratura alla realtà
The problem of identity: from literature to reality

Summary/Abstract: The present study speaks about memory and identity in literature and in real life. Man is the product of his past, not only at the individual level, as an accumulated memory of one’ s life, but also collectively. Collective memory, or community memory, shapes and conditions the individual as much as personal experience. Nowadays value is weighed in quantitative terms and numbers. As Saramago remarked, today we represent a number rather than a name, an image rather than an identity. What matters most is how we present ourself rather than what we do, what our pursuits are or what we genuinely stand for .

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