sola del Giglio. Pejzaż z katastrofą w tle
Isola del Giglio. Landscape with a Catastrophe in the Background

Summary/Abstract: On Friday, 13 February 2012, a luxury cruise ship crashed along the shore of the island of Isola del Giglio (Tuscany). 32 persons perished and 64 were wounded. First, the author reconstrues in detail fundamental media discourses dealing with the Tyrrhenian Sea shipwreck. In the second part of the text he ponders on the consequences of the tragedy for the local landscape. The ship’s wreckage was left in the shore waters for two and a half years and only then was hauled away to the port of Genoa. Two questions remain: will the landscape remember? Will the catastrophe, despite the fact that its consequences are no longer invisible, still stay as an indelible fragment of the landscape?

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