Alienacja społeczna w dobie globalizacji na przykładzie twórczości Alda Novego
Social Alienation in the Age of Globalisation on the Basis of Aldo Nove’s Work

Author(s): Dominika Kobylska
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Theoretical Linguistics, Studies of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
Keywords: modern literature; Italian literaturę; pulp; giovani cannibali; alienation
Summary/Abstract: The analysis showed in the present monograph aims to provide the answers to the research questions and hypotheses concerning the phenomenon of the social alienation in the age of globalization showed in the prose of Aldo Nove, an Italian writer born in 1967 in Viggiù. On the basis of the modern interpretation of the term of alienation by Rahel Jaeggi and its previous definitions – for example by Marx – there were analyzed selected works of the Italian writer written from the 1990s to 2018. The book is divided in five chapters: the first one is devoted to the methodological approach, the second one to the reception of the writer’s work in Poland and around the world, and the last three to the proper analysis of the texts, divided according to the subsequent stages of the writer’s career. The presented study proves that Nove shows contemporary society as alienated in the era of mass media and progressive consumerism. Such approach can be seen not only in the content of his works but also through their form and the character structure. In the last stage of his work, the author, despite his pessimistic vision of today’s world, provides the possible remedy for the human alienation. In order to show it, he refers to the search for transcendence in human life to find the relation with itself and with the world (including the supra-material one), which in turn makes his texts fit into the canon of post-secular literature.

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