HISTORIA ALTERNATYWNA JAKO KOMENTARZ DO WSPÓŁCZESNOŚCI: HISTORIA JUTRA CURZIA MALAPARTEGO

• Authors: Liszka-Drążkiewicz Agnieszka

Title variants

EN

Alternate history as a political commentary: Curzio Malaparte’s Story of Tomorrow

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

In his 1949 short novel, Story of Tomorrow, Italian writer Curzio Malaparte depicts postwar Europe invaded by the Soviet Union. The book focuses on the new political order in Italy, and particularly on the fates of several important Italian politicians from the 1940 decade (Alcide De Gasperi, Palmiro Togliatti) and of the author himself. It can be disputed whether the text may be considered an alternate history (or rather political fiction), mainly because of the lack of an explicit nexus event (i.e. the event that creates the alternative reality in relation to the one known to the reader). Although the events depicted in the book take place in near future or – more probably – in an alternative present, the author’s main aim is to provide a highly critical and satirical commentary on contemporary Italy’s political situation.

Keywords

PL

historia alternatywna; political fiction; Curzio Malaparte; historia włoska

EN

alternate history; political fiction; Curzio Malaparte

• Publisher: Towarzystwo Przyjaciół Nauk w Przemyślu
• Journal: Rocznik Przemyski
• Year: 2018
• Volume: 54
• Issue: 2(22): Literatura i Język
• Pages: 67-77

Contributors

author

Liszka-Drążkiewicz Agnieszka

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