The current essay aims to highlighting the importance of Magris’ Utopia e disincanto. The year of its first publication (1999) was a watershed moment in his career, as it paved the way to a new season of public engagement and historical analysis, which can be also seen in his later essays and novels. Twenty years later, Utopia e disincanto is still a manifesto for modernity, a deeply contemporary book where Magris’ analytical view is headed towards an idea of universal literature, an idea of Weltliteratur that should be a tool to understand the changes in which mankind is involved. Literature is meant to be a tool to investigate the dark sides hidden among the folds of History
University of Florence, Italy
Chapter Title
Un manifesto per la modernità: venti anni di Utopia e disincanto
Authors
Federico Carciaghi
Language
Italian
DOI
10.36253/978-88-5518-338-3.28
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Publication Year
2021
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Book Title
Firenze per Claudio Magris
Editors
Ernestina Pellegrini, Federico Fastelli, Diego Salvadori
Peer Reviewed
Publication Year
2021
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© 2021 Author(s)
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Publisher Name
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/978-88-5518-338-3
eISBN (pdf)
978-88-5518-338-3
eISBN (xml)
978-88-5518-339-0
Series Title
Biblioteca di Studi di Filologia Moderna
Series E-ISSN
2420-8361