L’arte di vivere ne “Il professore di Viggiù” di Aldo Nove. Uno studio sulla vita umana sulla base di un’intervista mai avvenuta
The Art of Living in "Il professore di Viggiù" by Aldo Nove. A Study on Human Life on the Basis of an Interview that Never Took Place

Author(s): Dominika Kobylska
Subject(s): Philosophy, Literary Texts, Studies of Literature, Italian literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
Keywords: Aldo Nove; Italian literature; “Il professore di Viggiù”; consumerism; “pulp”; “cannibale”
Summary/Abstract: The analysis presented in this article concerns one of the newest philosophical novels of Aldo Nove, entitled “Il professore di Viggiù” (2018). In the book the author presents an invented interview with mysterious person, by which he transmits reflections on human life in the modern world. The text evokes the existential issues concerning the increasingly precarious conditions in which people live torn between doubts about the reality of their own being. The aim of the research is to emphasize the motifs which can be seen in the work of the Italian writer and to answer the questions related to his way of showing the consumer society.

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