Silence, Witnessing, and the Implicated Subject in Erri De Luca's Il torto del soldato.
This article examines Erri De Luca's Il torto del soldato in parallel with recent debates in memory studies. Drawing on the work of James E. Young, Shoshana Felman, and Michael Rothberg, I discuss the intertwining of conceptions of memory and history, with a particular focus on silence and rememberi...
| Publicado en: | Italian Studies Vol. 77; no. 1; pp. 95 - 109 |
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