REREADING “DREAMS FROM BUNKER HILLS”, BY JOHN FANTE. INTERTEXTUAL ACCENTS AND HERMENEUTICAL SUGGESTIONS
REREADING “DREAMS FROM BUNKER HILLS”, BY JOHN FANTE. INTERTEXTUAL ACCENTS AND HERMENEUTICAL SUGGESTIONS

Summary/Abstract: Defined as a literary testament, “Dreams from Bunker Hills” is the fourth novel of the so-called Arturo Bandini’s saga, the last literary work of John Fante and probably the most metaliterary one. This article is an attempt of critical rereading that should hopefully add some new insights to Fantian themes, in the light of recent theories of reading/rereading and interpretation. The significative literary genealogy of the author, which implies a meaning-making osmotic relationship between the (re)writing process, intertextuality issues and the retrieval of autobiographical memory fragments, will be then analysed in “Dreams” by integrating textual understanding and critical re-articulation.

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