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Da un metagrido a un grido. Un esempio di riscrittura nell'opera di Erri De Luca

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Summary, in English

The article focuses on a case of rewriting of a short episode in the narrative of Erri De Luca. It is all about a cry: in 1930, in the harbour of Naples, an anonymous woman who is watching the departure of a ship suddenly cries out the name of Salvatore, probably her son being on the ship to emigrate to America. This episode, narrated in the tale “Udito: un grido” first published 1993, returns with striking lexical similarities in the drama L’Ultimo viaggio di Sindbad, 2003. Despite the similarities, one can not consider the second occurrence as a mere copy of the first, because of subtle variations on many levels: change of genre, narrator and perspective give the second occurrence of the cry episode a wider significance, strongly emphazising orality and actualizing a mythical dimension.

Publishing year

2012

Language

Italian

Pages

131-143

Publication/Series

Revue Romane

Volume

47

Issue

1

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

John Benjamins Publishing Company

Topic

  • Languages and Literature

Keywords

  • hypertextuality
  • Erri De Luca
  • rewriting
  • textual transfer

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 0035-3906