Data di Pubblicazione:
2019
Citazione:
Influence rétrospective et regard prophétique : le cas de Proust et Bassani / R. Capotorti. - In: SILÈNE. - ISSN 2105-2816. - (2019), pp. 1-7. ((Intervento presentato al convegno Trafics d'influences: nouvelles approches d'une question comparatiste tenutosi a Paris nel 2016.
Abstract:
This article explores the idea of retrospective influence in comparative literature. This concept
allows to go beyond the traditional idea of reception and to discover hidden analogies between
texts. As a matter of fact, retrospective influence permits to settle the prophetic power of some
literary works that happen to reveal in advance themes and narrative structures that will be fully
developed only in later books. We will analyse intertextual connexions between Proust’s and
Giorgio Bassani’s works. The purpose is to demonstrate that the Affaire Dreyfus’s episode in the
Recherche is built on anachronic analogies between different historical periods, as Bassani does
in his novels. Our analysis examines the double function of this particular stylistic device that
works on two levels, textual and intertextual. Our hypothesis is that through Bassani’s work it is
possible to discover, in the historical episodes of the
Recherche, some disturbing and sinister
intuitions that make Proust’s work really prophetic.
Tipologia IRIS:
01 - Articolo su periodico
Keywords:
Proust's Recherche; comparative literature; reception; influence
Elenco autori:
R. Capotorti
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