The aim of this paper is to analyse and comment on the meaning of Portugal in three novels of the Italian writer: Requiem: Un'allucinazione, Sostiene Pereira, and La testa perduta di Damesceno Monteiro. The author of the paper demonstrates how Tabucchi uses the image of Portugal to discuss the ethical dimension of three issues: language, the individual vs. the state, and literature vs. law. K e y w o r d s: Tabucchi, Portugal, state, politics, law, metaphor, ethics Oh non ti preoccupare, replicò Silva, qui non siamo in Europa, siamo in Portogallo.
Face à l'homme, face à l'animal Penser l'écocritique avec Élisabeth de FontenayFacing Man, Facing the Animal. Thinking Ecocriticism with Élisabeth de FontenayThe author seeks to relate the ideas of Élisabeth de Fontenay to what is now called an ecological turn in the humanities − particularly in literary studies − to see how the work and thought of the philosopher can accompany us in the exercise of ecocritical discourse on literature. Particular attention is paid to the reading of her book Gaspard de la nuit. Autobiographie de mon frère, which reveals human and animal fragility and invites the questioning of contemporary ecologically sensitive discourses.
This article examines the representation of the environment in the Canti by Giacomo Leopardi. The author seeks to show the Leopardian environment as a place where history, nature and the cosmos intersect. The immensity and simultaneity of these three elements determines the way the lyric subject inhabits the world. Leopardi’s poetic focus is on his painful experience of the environment, which remains an indifferent and destructive agent. The poet deconstructs classical and romantic models of nature and culture by appealing to the aesthetics of the sublime, which unlike Kant is not the means of understanding but the way to experience the planetary character of existence.
SummaryIn this contribution I try to show how E. Stein, E. Levinas and P. Ricoeurexpress their disagreement with Heideggerian conception of being-towards-death and propose their vision of eternity and its experience. The three main images are commented:the death as a discontinuity and condition of a new life, suspension of the time to the resurrection by the other, the intensification of the experience of time.
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