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Tucci Francesca
"Von den lateinischen Trauerspielen welche unter dem Namen des Seneca bekannt sind" Lessings Auseinandersetzung mit Seneca
The essay offers an analysis of Lessing's dramaturgy from the perspective of its fruitful relationship with the literary tradition of the ancient world, with particular attention to the problem of translation.
«Per lo più senza desideri e un poco infelici». Ritratto della madre perduta in Wunschloses Unglück di Peter Handke
In this work Wunschloses Unglück is read as if it were an impressionistic biography in images. The tale was born out of an attempt to give Handke’s fifty-year-old mother, who died of suicide, back a story and an identity. A way to give content and contours to the woman and to neutralize the depersonalizing effect of the news of the event in the pages of the local newspaper. The story of the mother is actually, from the very beginning, a reflection of the writer on his own work, on the difficulty of writing ‘true’ stories, on the tormented search for a precarious balance between description and documentation, between narration and image, between truth and fiction. Handke would seem to be gui…