
Una ripetizione straniante
Author(s) -
Claudia Murru
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
incontri
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2214-7705
pISSN - 0169-3379
DOI - 10.18352/inc11004
Subject(s) - narrative , character (mathematics) , repetition (rhetorical device) , philosophy , epistemology , literature , psychoanalysis , humanities , sociology , psychology , linguistics , art , mathematics , geometry
Repetition and estrangement
The fixed idea in a tale of I. U. Tarchetti
The article aims to investigate the process of estrangement through the tale La lettera U, by Iginio Ugo Tarchetti. By adopting the point of view of a madman, Tarchetti stages an estrangement that affects the entire discourse of the character. The fixed idea, a symptom of monomania (the psychiatric definition of this type of delirium at the time) gives rise to a narrative device with a strong alienating potential, able to highlight the differences between the notion of Šklovskij's ostranenie and estrangement as presented in fantastic literature.