Fernando Pessoa's "static dramas" - fourteen are currently known, all of them unfinished and fragmentary, except The Sailor - mirror the heteronymism that characterises, in a broad sense, his entire work. A theatre of words, of situation rather than of action, which is realised in a dialectical superimposition of the inner level with the outer one and in a mechanism that through recourse to dreams, as an active instrument of poetic creation, generates mystery and horror. The fragments of Salome, a drama probably composed in the period 1917-1918, are a highly significant example not only of Pessoa's static/estatic tendency, but also of the need to represent in various declinations the 'subtle intellectual terror' that constitutes his dramatic vocation.
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Chapter Title
Visioni di Salomè. L’orrore del sogno in un frammento teatrale di Pessoa
Authors
Andrea Ragusa
Language
Italian
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0278-7.09
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Publication Year
2023
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Book Title
La violenza nel teatro contemporaneo
Book Subtitle
Lingue e linguaggi a confronto
Editors
Paola Bellomi, Carla Francellini, Maria Beatrice Lenzi, Ada Milani, Niccolò Scaffai
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Number of Pages
152
Publication Year
2023
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Publisher Name
Firenze University Press, USiena Press
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0278-7
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979-12-215-0277-0
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979-12-215-0278-7
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979-12-215-0279-4
Series Title
Studi di letterature moderne e comparate
Series ISSN
2975-0377
Series E-ISSN
2975-0229