Il ruolo della tecnologia nell’opera di Daniele Del Giudice
The Role of Technology in the Works of Daniele Del Giudice

Summary/Abstract: In Daniele Del Giudice’s novel Atlante Occidentale, two seemingly distant voices intertwine. One belongs to a young physicist, Pietro Brahe, the other to an elderly writer, Ira Epstein. The former delves into the secrets of matter, while the latter explores the corners of consciousness. In the physicist’s work, there are things for which no image exists, while the writer is unable to describe what he sees. From this dialogue, a philosophical novel about science and literature could have emerged, but Atlante Occidentale is not such a novel. What piques Del Giudice’s curiosity are “the feelings and ways of being that a technology produces,” in other words, the anthropological changes brought about by technological development. Thus, the aforementioned novel proves to be a useful compendium for survival in an ever-changing reality, a map, a kind of atlas of Western civilization that guides us through new places: those created by technology. The aim of this study is to present a differentia specifica of the role of technology in Daniele Del Giudice’s work, with particular reference to the novel Atlante Occidentale.

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