BETWEEN TWO TRADITIONS: THE FANTASTIC IN DINO BUZZATI'S CHRISTMAS STORIES
2010; Modern Humanities Research Association; Volume: 105; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1353/mlr.2010.0000
ISSN2222-4319
Autores Tópico(s)Media, Communication, and Education
ResumoFor about four decades Dino Buzzati contributed Christmas pieces to major Italian newspapers. Some are journalistic articles decraying the loss of faith in the redeeming power of imagination caused by the spread of consumer habits; others are visionary representations recreating the festivity's magic aura. The stories belonging to the second type lie at the intersection between the Dickensian tradition and Italy's own Christmas literature. Buzzati's uniqueness resides in the intertextual borrowing of fantastic features from Dickens as well as in the use of irony and the inversion of generic stereotypes, as opposed to the didactic realism of Italian seasonal narratives.
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