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Un “libro terribile”, L’Imperio di De Roberto tra disincanto politico e nichilismo

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Ferraro G.

Studia Romanica Posnaniensia

2014

vol. 41

issue 4

61-75

book”. Published in 1929, when the Sicilian writer was not longer alive, this incomplete novel concluded the project of literary triptych including the novels L’Illusione and I Viceré. What could arouse dismay and abhorrence in its readers was the nihilistic outcome of the plot. In order to explain it, the authors of the present paper show how the political disillusionment, embodied in the novel by the figure of the young journalist Federico Ranaldi, discloses for De Roberto the horizon of European nihilism. Being symbolic of the Italian generation born after the Unification, Ranaldi loses his political ideals when he understands that the politicians have no faith and are no longer right. Disgusted by the conduct of Consalvo Uzeda di Francalanza, the last heir of the ancient “viceroys” of Sicily, now the minister of the Kingdom, Ranaldi is overwhelmed by a radical, pessimistic vision of the world. Thus it is evident that De Roberto was extremely influenced by such philosophers as Giacomo Leopardi, Arthur Schopenhauer and Eduard von Hartmann.

In the correspondence with his mother, Federico De Roberto defined its own novel L’Imperio as a “a terrible book”. Published in 1929, when the Sicilian writer was not longer alive, this incomplete novel concluded the project of literary triptych including the novels L’Illusione and I Viceré. What could arouse dismay and abhorrence in its readers was the nihilistic outcome of the plot. In order to explain it, the authors of the present paper show how the political disillusionment, embodied in the novel by the figure of the young journalist Federico Ranaldi, discloses for De Roberto the horizon of European nihilism. Being symbolic of the Italian generation born after the Unification, Ranaldi loses his political ideals when he understands that the politicians have no faith and are no longer right. Disgusted by the conduct of Consalvo Uzeda di Francalanza, the last heir of the ancient “viceroys” of Sicily, now the minister of the Kingdom, Ranaldi is overwhelmed by a radical, pessimistic vision of the world. Thus it is evident that De Roberto was extremely influenced by such philosophers as Giacomo Leopardi, Arthur Schopenhauer and Eduard von Hartmann.

Una literatura que hace sociología El ejemplo de la narrativa latinoamericana

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AINSA F.

Revista del CESLA. International Latin American Studies Review

2010

vol. 2

issue 13

393-408

The earlier Madame de Stael’s essay on relations between litera-ture and society, the Lukács, Goldman, Hauser and Sacarpit’s works on the influence of sociology into fiction, have founded the sociology of literature. In the following pages, we propose the reverse situation: how literature influences society. The XX century Latin American fiction is a good example of which we analyze its different periods.

Desde Madame de Stael y su ensayo precursor de 1800, pasando por Lukács, Goldman, Hauser y Escarpit se ha estudiado la influencia de la sociedad en la literatura. En estas páginas se aventura una propuesta inversa: la literatura tam-bién influye en la sociedad, extremo del que la narrativa latinoamericana del siglo XX es un buen ejemplo que se analiza en sus diferentes períodos: las “novelas de la tie-rra”, las de denuncia social y política, lo real maravilloso y la contemporánea narrati-va basada en la cultura popular.

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Un “libro terribile”, L’Imperio di De Roberto tra disincanto politico e nichilismo

Una literatura que hace sociología El ejemplo de la narrativa latinoamericana