«Truth is an odd number». La narrativa di Flann O’Brien e il fantastico
Author(s)
Milli, Valentina
Language
ItalianAbstract
Starting from the main theories about the imaginary - from the Freudian category of Unheimliche and the Todorovian category of hésitation up to the most recent contributions - the volume highlights the imaginary elements of instability in Flann O'Brien's narrative. In particular, the author analyses the discontinuities and irreconcilable contradictions of the Irish writer's textual systems, the idiosyncratic and fragmented representation of the characters, the ambiguous coexistence of natural and supernatural, the problematic relationship between signifier and signified. Malapropisms, neologisms, linguistic tics, nonsense and a series of meta-narrative games seem to compromise the search for reliable answers within the Obrienian cosmos in which truth is, in fact, an odd number.
ISBN
9788866557456, 9788892733749Publisher
Firenze University PressPublisher website
www.fupress.com/Publication date and place
Florence, 2014Series
Biblioteca di Studi di Filologia Moderna,Classification
Linguistics
Translation and interpretation
Biography, Literature and Literary studies
Literature: history and criticism