Charles Swann e Athos Fadigati: la figura dell’ebreo e dell’innamorato in Proust e Bassani
Charles Swann and Athos Fadigati: the figure of the Jew and the lover in Proust and Bassani
Author(s): Aleksandra SchymallaSubject(s): Gender Studies, Jewish studies, Social history, Social Norms / Social Control, Italian literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Komisji Edukacji Narodowej w Krakowie
Keywords: Marcel Proust; Giorgio Bassani; Charles Swann; Jew; lover; homosexual; the Dreyfus affair;
Summary/Abstract: The aim of the research is to find a link between Recherche of Marcel Proust and Giorgio Bassani’s Novel of Ferrara, analyzing the way both of them construct the figure of a Jew, in the light of Giacomo Debenedetti’s and Hannah Arendt’s position related to Jewish identity. Giorgio Bassani’s novel The Gold Rimmed Spectacles has been chosen because Athos Fadigati, a homosexual, and Charles Swann, a Juif mondain, demonstrate some similarities in terms of sensitivity and their social position. Here Proust witnesses a change, the beginning of a process leading to extermination camps: the reality Bassani must confront.
Journal: Annales Universitatis Paedagogicae Cracoviensis. Studia Historicolitteraria
- Issue Year: 2017
- Issue No: 17
- Page Range: 115-125
- Page Count: 11
- Language: Italian