The sound and the fury: tre sguardi letterari sull'11-S tra rabbia, incredulità e metaletteratura
- Autores: Simone Cattaneo
- Localización: Altre Modernità: Rivista di studi letterari e culturali, ISSN-e 2035-7680, Nº. Extra 2, 2011 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Número especial 9/11/2011), págs. 146-161
- Idioma: francés
- Enlaces
-
Resumen
The aim of the article is to offer three different versions of the 11-S terrorist attacks, showing how Juan Manuel de Prada (Baracaldo, 1970), Ray Loriga (Madrid, 1967) and Enrique Vila-Matas (Barcelona, 1948) reproduce that tragic event in some of their novels � La vida invisible, El hombre que inventó Manhattan and El Mal de Montano � employing different techniques and approaches. In that way it�s possible to recognize in their pages an interesting spectrum of emotions that goes from rage to refined literary reflections. Still, the analysis of these texts, reveals a subtle uniformity imposed by the television screen: in the contemporary society, images captured by cameras contribute to create a mould that influences the reception of reality and thus causes both a stereotyped assimilation and a sceptical critique of media news. As we will see, precisely that last attitude raises in the authors an hopeless hope of being the witnesses of an unreal event, a sort of paradoxical will to be integrated in the society of the spectacle (Debord) as a psichological defense against horror.
