The paper is devoted to the representation of time and space in Cristo si è fermato a Eboli. In Levi’s representation of space, the opposition of nature and culture is a thematic constant, which aims to present civilization as an unstable condition, threatened by a sterile nature, which cannot be modified by human labour; or, if space assumes the connotation of a mytic underworld, as a posthumous datum. Through this representation of Basilicata, the experience of exile assumes the narrative functions of an epic catabasis, and develops in a dimension of time not co-extensive to the plan of ordinary experience and not to be integrated into the linear chronology of history.

MAPPE DELL’ALTROVE. LUOGHI E TEMPI IN CRISTO SI È FERMATO A EBOLI.

ELLERO, MARIA
2012-01-01

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The paper is devoted to the representation of time and space in Cristo si è fermato a Eboli. In Levi’s representation of space, the opposition of nature and culture is a thematic constant, which aims to present civilization as an unstable condition, threatened by a sterile nature, which cannot be modified by human labour; or, if space assumes the connotation of a mytic underworld, as a posthumous datum. Through this representation of Basilicata, the experience of exile assumes the narrative functions of an epic catabasis, and develops in a dimension of time not co-extensive to the plan of ordinary experience and not to be integrated into the linear chronology of history.
2012
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