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dc.title	Visita alle ombre. Rapporti tra Il ragazzo morto e le comete di Goffredo Parise e Risveglio di primavera di Frank Wedekind
dc.contributor.author	fardin michelle
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing
dc.type	Research Article
dc.language.iso	it
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/riviste/quaderni-veneti/2015/2/visita-alle-ombre/
dc.description.abstract	The present comparative essay suggests that Parise recalled Wedekind’s Frülings Erwachen (1891) in his novel Il ragazzo morto e le comete (1951). They both tell the story of a friendship, which ends when one of the main characters dies. The most interesting feature that the two works share is the irruption of dead people in the lived experience of the protagonists, which interact with them as if they were alive characters. Parise’s post-war scenario – the Venetian countryside in the late 1940s – is just a background for the oneiric tale of a fifteen-year-old boy, while Wedekind’s play is born of a need to ruthlessly criticize the hypocrisy of Wilhelmine Germany. However, in his novel Parise evoked a series of images that can also be found in Frülings Erwachen and the finale of Il ragazzo morto e le comete is almost perfectly overlapping with the one of Wedekind’s play.
dc.relation.ispartof	Quaderni Veneti
dc.relation.ispartof	Vol. 4 \| December 2015
dc.issued	2015-12-30
dc.identifier.issn
dc.identifier.eissn	1724-188X
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.identifier.doi	10.14277/1724-188X/QV-4-2-15-6
dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	Contemporary literature
dc.subject	Contemporary literature
dc.subject	Frank Wedekind
dc.subject	Frank Wedekind
dc.subject	Goffredo Parise
dc.subject	Goffredo Parise
dc.subject	Recall of literary images
dc.subject	Recall of literary images

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Visita alle ombre

Rapporti tra Il ragazzo morto e le comete di Goffredo Parise e Risveglio di primavera di Frank Wedekind

michelle fardin univ. ca' foscari venezia

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The present comparative essay suggests that Parise recalled Wedekind’s Frülings Erwachen (1891) in his novel Il ragazzo morto e le comete (1951). They both tell the story of a friendship, which ends when one of the main characters dies. The most interesting feature that the two works share is the irruption of dead people in the lived experience of the protagonists, which interact with them as if they were alive characters. Parise’s post-war scenario – the Venetian countryside in the late 1940s – is just a background for the oneiric tale of a fifteen-year-old boy, while Wedekind’s play is born of a need to ruthlessly criticize the hypocrisy of Wilhelmine Germany. However, in his novel Parise evoked a series of images that can also be found in Frülings Erwachen and the finale of Il ragazzo morto e le comete is almost perfectly overlapping with the one of Wedekind’s play.

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Dec. 30, 2015

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Keywords: Contemporary literature • Frank Wedekind • Goffredo Parise • Recall of literary images

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