Vincenzo Consolo and the postmodern writing of melancholy.

From: Italica | Date: March 22, 2005| Author: Bouchard, Norma | Copyright information

Non e propria de' tempi nostri altra poesia che la malinconica, ne altro tuono di poesia che questo....--Giacomo Leopardi (1)

As open ended, fragmentary, and hybrid verbal structures, Consolo's historical novels exhibit many of the rhetorical devices that we have come to associate with postmodernist writing practices. Yet, these are also novels that remain fundamentally distinct from the banishment of memory and temporal continuity that informs dominant, majoritarian mo...

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