Data di Pubblicazione:
2016
Citazione:
La guerra interdetta : "Il campo 29" di Sergio Antonielli / M.L. Crippa. - In: GILGAMEŠ. - ISSN 2531-9515. - 1:(2016 Jun), pp. 75-94. ((Intervento presentato al convegno La guerra : Le guerre tenutosi a Palazzo Feltrinelli, Gargnano (Bs) nel 2015 [10.13130/2531-9515/7772].
Abstract:
Il campo 29 is the debut as novelist of Sergio Antonielli. It was
published in Milan in 1949 by “Edizioni Europee” and in 1976
by “Editori Riuniti”. The novel tells the personal experience of
imprisonment in British Raj during the Second World War with other
ten thousand Italian officers.
Through the analysis of the text and documents from the archives
of the author, stored in the Centro Apice, I would like to discuss the
techniques of composition that make this work a peculiar case in the
post-world war literary system. Antonielli, forcing himself to overcome
the tragedy suffered, commits to the writing a dual purpose: to avoid
mere “documentarismo” without overindulging in the romance, and
to take the advantage of the exceptional nature of his experience to
create a work that exceed all individual and historical contingencies.
In respect of these moral and stylistic imperatives, the writer refuses
the autobiography and choices a choral intonation, different from
sentimental style, typical of other writers involved in the literature
of war. His critic studies and the introductions, written by author for
two editions, show distinct interpretations about his work and about
typical methods and category of neorealist literature: document,
diary, autobiographical novel.
The story does not give way to political disquisitions or to sentimental
parenthesis, but it consists of representation of the life in prison
camps. A “city of prisoners” comes alive, where coexist vices and
virtues of the normal society, and where the war is banned.
Tipologia IRIS:
01 - Articolo su periodico
Elenco autori:
M.L. Crippa
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