The intervention addresses three metaphysical and fantastical exemplary works from the twentieth century - Ebdòmero, La partenza dell’Argonauta, Il Mar delle Blatte – in which the theme of travel finds expression through different textual models. In the first case, De Chirico uses the archetypical model of Ulysses’ journey against a background of fantastic metaphysical imagery. In the second Savinio creates a parodistic rewriting of the Argonautiche by Apollonio Rodio – the mythical trip par excellence, while in the third (Il mar delle blatte) Landolfi recalls the characters of Salgari’s adventure novels. All three texts represent imaginary travels towards an unreachable elsewhere, symbolically represented by a paradisiacal Island, lost and dreamt of also by the sailor Pessoa.
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Chapter Title
Il viaggio fantastico di de Chirico, Savinio, Landolfi
Authors
Teresa Spignoli
Language
Italian
DOI
10.36253/978-88-5518-467-0.29
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Publication Year
2021
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Book Title
Nel segno di Magellano tra terra e cielo
Book Subtitle
Il viaggio nelle arti umanistiche e scientifiche di lingua portoghese e di altre culture europee in un’ottica interculturale
Editors
Michela Graziani, Lapo Casetti, Salomé Vuelta García
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Number of Pages
492
Publication Year
2021
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© 2021 Author(s)
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Publisher Name
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/978-88-5518-467-0
ISBN Print
978-88-5518-466-3
eISBN (pdf)
978-88-5518-467-0
Series Title
Studi e saggi
Series ISSN
2704-6478
Series E-ISSN
2704-5919