La mimesi "dell’Altro" nella narrativa di Giuseppe Culicchia
The Concept of the "l’Altro" in Culicchia’s Novels

Author(s): Małgorzata Puto
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Literary Texts, Italian literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
Keywords: mimesis; the Other; otherness; anthropology; Italian literature
Summary/Abstract: The objective of the study is to identify and examine the essential elements which constitute the concept of the “Other” in the novels of Giuseppe Culicchia. The texts analyzed were published by Culicchia, writer, essayist and translator in Turin, Italy, from 1994 to 2019. The theoretical literary perspective is that of mimesis (Erich Auerbach, Zofia Mitosek, Nicoletta Salomon, Cesare Segre) and the concept of the “l’Altro” derives from anthropological studies (Marc Augé, Marco Aime, Ugo Fabietti, Francesco Remotti). The purpose of this study is to promote interdisciplinary research and to present the model of the Other and its evolution in novels. The article focuses on aspects of otherness, more apparent in Culicchia, that is to say: distance and space (the idea of nonluogo, mente locale, mobility), set of values and the consequent changes in the characters of his novels.

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