Tommaso Landolfi et la divine bestialité de femme
Tommaso Landolfi and the divine bestiality of woman

Summary/Abstract: In his rich and overflowing literary production, Tommaso Landolfi gives the representation of animality a distinguished place: on one hand, his bestiality is dense and proposes different animal species which are victim of executioners, on the other hand, his vision of humanity aims at revealing bestiality in human beings. Among his characters haunted by bestiality and/or animated by a strong animality, women play a special role: either they are an object of sacrifice or they are venerated divinities. In any case, they allow to be elsewhere. We will study the case of La pietra lunare where a young lady, Gurù, initiates poet under the hypnotic eye of the moon. In thie novel, Gandolfi deals with the myths of Medusa and Artemic in order to create a panic world where the young neophyte, touched by the hand of God returns, changed, to his own reality.

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