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Le moi et l’expérience initiatique. Lecture de Olimpia de Luigia Sorrentino
The Ego and the Initiatory Experience. A Critical Reading of Luigia Sorrentino’s Olimpia

Author(s): Alberto Russo Previtali
Subject(s): Poetry, Existentialism, Italian literature
Published by: Classiques Garnier
Keywords: Orphic poetry; expanded Ego; initiatory experience; allegorical scene; poetical testimony;

Summary/Abstract: The essay proposes a critical reading of the book of poetry titled Olimpia through the description of the poetical Ego, conceived in its dilatation and mediation process. In the allegorical scene of the city-woman Olympia, the speech of the Ego is interpreted as a will to testify the initiatory experience.

  • Issue Year: 1/2022
  • Issue No: 29
  • Page Range: 219-236
  • Page Count: 20
  • Language: French