Caietele EchinoxPub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.24193/cechinox.2023.44.08
G. Ghini
{"title":"Più forte dell’orrore. Come la memoria del bello vinse il Lager e il Gulag","authors":"G. Ghini","doi":"10.24193/cechinox.2023.44.08","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24193/cechinox.2023.44.08","url":null,"abstract":"\"The contribution outlines a particular dimension of the internment experience, that “remnant of spiritual freedom, of the free attitude of the ego towards the world – as Viktor Frankl explains – even in that state, only apparently of absolute compulsion”. Furthermore, it aims to present two cases in which this “remnant of humanity” is embodied in a literary memory which thus becomes a memory of authentic life, capable of brightening and shattering the nonsense of the forced labour camp. This is the experience that Primo Levi recounts in Chapter XI of Se questo è un uomo, in which the memory and the existential re-actualization of Dante’s Ulysses overcome the professed desperation of Levi’s title. This is the same experience as Georgij Aleksandrovič Lesskis did in 1939, when, in the horror of the Soviet correctional labour camp, was rescued, according to his own testimony, by the “fair, bright and warm world of Tolstoy’s War and Peace”.\"","PeriodicalId":40223,"journal":{"name":"Caietele Echinox","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48255665","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Caietele EchinoxPub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.24193/cechinox.2023.44.02
N. Caputo
{"title":"Individual and Collective Memory in Shakespeare’s First Tetralogy, Between Myth and National Identity","authors":"N. Caputo","doi":"10.24193/cechinox.2023.44.02","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24193/cechinox.2023.44.02","url":null,"abstract":"\"In Richard III, Act 3, young Prince Edward’s insistent questions about the origins of the Tower of London bring the issue of historical transmission to the foreground. Furthermore, the survival of truth across time is thematised throughout the first tetralogy. References to fame recur obsessively in the three parts of Henry VI, while in Richard III, Shakespeare subtly plays with a historical and historiographical tradition that is much indebted to memorial transmission. In this play, historical distortion is materialised in the deformed body of its protagonist, who becomes the emblem of a past reinterpreted and rewritten in the light of present interests. The article will show how, on the one hand, the dramatist goes beyond what already was a “vituperative history” and brings the so-called Tudor myth to its apex while, on the other hand, undermining this same myth.\"","PeriodicalId":40223,"journal":{"name":"Caietele Echinox","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48334463","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Caietele EchinoxPub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.24193/cechinox.2023.44.22
Giovanna Fiordaliso
{"title":"Mito e storia in Medusa (2012) di Ricardo Menéndez Salmón","authors":"Giovanna Fiordaliso","doi":"10.24193/cechinox.2023.44.22","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24193/cechinox.2023.44.22","url":null,"abstract":"\"Published in 2012, Medusa is the fifth novel by Ricardo Menéndez Salmón, a young Asturian author and an important novelist in the panorama of contemporary Spanish literature. Although the novel plot would seem quite simple – a PhD candidate is writing a thesis on the iconography of evil in the 20th century and ends up reconstructing the biography of Prohaska, a young German who, thanks to his passion for drawing and photography, becomes a propagandist of the Nazi regime – the work results from a complex stratification of different genres and levels of reading, such as the narration of the main historical events in the 20th century; the reflections about existence and the characteristics of human nature; the value of the written word, literature and art as a manifestation and expression of a reality in which time and its passage are essential, captured and therefore communicated to catch the essence of memory and its legacy.\"","PeriodicalId":40223,"journal":{"name":"Caietele Echinox","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47746501","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Caietele EchinoxPub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.24193/cechinox.2023.44.20
Carla Dente
{"title":"Forme del passato nel presente. Victoria e Europe di D. Greig fra memoria culturale e ricezione teatrale","authors":"Carla Dente","doi":"10.24193/cechinox.2023.44.20","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24193/cechinox.2023.44.20","url":null,"abstract":"\"The articulation of time-space dimensions is a theme both for theorists of various disciplines and for those who deal with the problems of the exegesis of texts. The globalization process makes us perceive a hybrid present and permeable spaces, both with cultural consequences in relation to the process of attribution of meaning. This is the very broad outline in which I read the texts of D. Greig presented here, texts that, in the crisis of traditional historicism, address the theme in an unusual way: the relationship between history and memory has changed the nature of historical writing, accentuating the function of cultural memory (mnemo-history), with individual and collective past inevitably as its objects.\"","PeriodicalId":40223,"journal":{"name":"Caietele Echinox","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47812599","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Caietele EchinoxPub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.24193/cechinox.2023.44.26
R. Ferrari
{"title":"Forward to the Past: la sfida della Storia in Machines Like Me di Ian McEwan","authors":"R. Ferrari","doi":"10.24193/cechinox.2023.44.26","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24193/cechinox.2023.44.26","url":null,"abstract":"\"In his novel, Machines Like Me (2019), Ian McEwan offers an interesting example of “alternate history” while dealing with crucial ethical issues connected with the development of Artificial Intelligence. Instead of setting his story in the future, the author chooses to set it in the past, but he radically changes the contours of the latter. Hence, the England of the early 1980s is turned into a technologically advanced society, well ahead of the scientific progress of the early 21st century. Thus, the future casts its light on the past in what appears as a typically postmodernist mélange: besides mingling genres (from speculative fiction to uchronia), McEwan also performs an intriguing hybridization of fact and fiction. The paper intends to explore the rich historical dimension of the novel, which betrays the author’s interest in the reflection on history and on its narrativization – as well as its manipulation and/or contamination – within the literary text.\"","PeriodicalId":40223,"journal":{"name":"Caietele Echinox","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48831551","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Caietele EchinoxPub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.24193/cechinox.2023.44.03
Federica Cappelli
{"title":"Verosimiglianza storica vs memoria creativa in El prodigioso príncipe transilvano","authors":"Federica Cappelli","doi":"10.24193/cechinox.2023.44.03","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24193/cechinox.2023.44.03","url":null,"abstract":"\"In the Spanish theatre of the Golden Age, political propaganda and the consequent need to propose heroes conforming to the prevailing political-religious ideology to the public of corrales de comedia were almost always conditioning the creative process. This is also the case of El prodigioso príncipe transilvano, a historical comedy set at the time of the long Spanish-Turkish conflict (1526-1606) and dedicated to exalting the figure of Sigismund Báthory, in truth one of the most controversial figures in the history of Romanian principalities. This contribution aims at investigating the extent and mechanisms that, in the text, regulate this intersection of historical reliability and creative reworking of a recent past for pro-Spanish and pro- catholic propaganda purposes.\"","PeriodicalId":40223,"journal":{"name":"Caietele Echinox","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46345810","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Caietele EchinoxPub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.24193/cechinox.2023.44.13
A. Ghezzani
{"title":"Jorge Luis Borges: un requiem per la Germania","authors":"A. Ghezzani","doi":"10.24193/cechinox.2023.44.13","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24193/cechinox.2023.44.13","url":null,"abstract":"\"J.L. Borges can be considered one of the first writers to have told the destiny of National Socialism in fiction. A few years after Hitler’s defeat, in February 1946, one year after the start of the Nuremberg trial, he published the short story Deutsches Requiem in Sur (later gathered in The Aleph): it is the propaganda and immoral delirium of a criminal looking for an existential justification. The monologue of the Nazi torturer hypothesizes an “individual teleology” able to justifies his destiny together with that of Germany, which explains the controversial opinions expressed by critics and intellectuals on the tale. My essay aims to focus on the most problematic issues of the text, taking into account the six theoretical essays on Nazism that precede it (the articles and essays published in Sur between 1937 and 1946), and also the reviews published in El Hogar in the thirties, which integrate the corpus of texts on which the most important studies are based.\"","PeriodicalId":40223,"journal":{"name":"Caietele Echinox","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49120876","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Caietele EchinoxPub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.24193/cechinox.2023.44.01
F. Romoli
{"title":"La Vita di Antonij il Romano: (ri-)creazione della memoria, (ri-)costruzione di un’identità","authors":"F. Romoli","doi":"10.24193/cechinox.2023.44.01","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24193/cechinox.2023.44.01","url":null,"abstract":"The article aims to show how the sixteenth-century Life of Antony the Roman engages in the process of re-codification of memory; it does so, following the loss of independence in 1478, to express Novgorod’s claim to an identity then eclipsed by that of Moscow. The Life borrows arguments from the Epistle of the monk Filofej, reiterated in the later Tale of the White Klobuk. Both the Epistle and Tale rely on the translatio imperii, the first from Rome to Constantinople and Moscow, the latter from Rome, to Constantinople and Novgorod; in the Life the same argument affirms Novgorod’s role as the unique depository of the Orthodox faith since the 12th century.","PeriodicalId":40223,"journal":{"name":"Caietele Echinox","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42346469","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Caietele EchinoxPub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.24193/cechinox.2023.44.25
Verónica Orazi
{"title":"L’insospettata prossimità della memoria storica: Descarriadas (2018) di Laila Ripoll","authors":"Verónica Orazi","doi":"10.24193/cechinox.2023.44.25","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24193/cechinox.2023.44.25","url":null,"abstract":"Descarriadas is a monologue about an atrocious legacy of Francoism: the internment in the centres of the Patronato de Protección a la Mujer (1941-1984) of girls considered descarriadas, that is, stragglers. To end up in these reformatories, it was enough to deviate even slightly from the morals imposed by the regime and to be reported by supervisors in charge of this type of control. Among the shocking aspects of the story, the continuation of this practice and the existence of the centres until the mid-1980s stands out. Over a period of forty years, this phenomenon involved thousands of girls: another example of a silenced intra-history that the play transforms into a cry, giving voice to the victims.","PeriodicalId":40223,"journal":{"name":"Caietele Echinox","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42518007","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Caietele EchinoxPub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.24193/cechinox.2023.44.27
V. Alexander
{"title":"Presencing Connection: Life Writing and Personal Development","authors":"V. Alexander","doi":"10.24193/cechinox.2023.44.27","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24193/cechinox.2023.44.27","url":null,"abstract":"\"The global present has been diagnosed as a disruptive moment of disconnection. In this essay, I stage an interdisciplinary encounter between the self-reflexive genre of life writing on the one hand, and recent theories of personal development and leadership in order to compare recent approaches to the present as a moment of transformation. In order to overcome present disruptions, it is necessary to acknowledge past patterns of relating to the social and natural environment, but also to go beyond self- and systems awareness and develop innovative ways of connecting that complement a cognitive understanding of crisis with affective and embodied practices. By bringing together life writings and leadership theories, I introduce a range of current ways of envisioning connection and sketch how they may contribute to making more sustainable relational imaginaries and practices accessible to a wider public.\"","PeriodicalId":40223,"journal":{"name":"Caietele Echinox","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47122093","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}