The alcoholics of war: experiencing chemical and ideological drunkenness in Emilio Lussu's Un anno sull'altipiano. From: Mosaic (Winnipeg) | Date: September 1, 2005| Author: Rossi, Umberto | COPYRIGHT 2005 University of Manitoba, Mosaic. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

This article applies the reflections on experience and narrative found in Walter Benjamin's "The Storyteller" to a popular Italian World War I novel, Emilio Lussu's Un anno sull'altipiano. The essay focuses on alcohol abuse repeatedly depicted in the novel as a component that can lead to a dissolution of traditional narrative forms.

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Any attempt to discuss modern war narratives unavoidably entails discussing the question of experience, a question th...

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