Title: La metáfora del pasado en la narrativa de Vincenzo Consolo
Abstract:This essay suggests a reading of the literary production of Vincenzo Consolo through the dialectic that the historical and literary and linguistic metaphor establishes in the intertextual tissue of hi...This essay suggests a reading of the literary production of Vincenzo Consolo through the dialectic that the historical and literary and linguistic metaphor establishes in the intertextual tissue of his writing. The historical periods which Consolo chooses as the background and scenery for the vicissitudes and experiences of its characters have been of crucial importance in Italian national history, and precisely for this reason, they are highly recurrent as a representation of the present this referred to the autor. To express the conception of the world in which we live, and its possible action on it, is an essential way for Consolo to resort to the topographic metaphor and the metaphor of nostos (of the omnipresent quote of the return journey narrated in the Odyssey), and the recovery of linguistic terms of the past. It is an entire lexical heritage capable of counteracting the emptiness of the terminology of mass communications media.Read More