“Un borghese piccolo piccolo”: la «mostruosa singolarità» dei violenti anni Settanta

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Abstract

This paper isolates and analyzes a specific topos of Italian labour narratives, that of the strike and workers’ demonstration. Through a diachronic study and the juxtaposition of textual fragments from novels of the 1970s, 1990s, and 2000s (mainly Nanni Balestrini’s, Tommaso Di Ciaula’s, and Antonio Pennacchi’s), I will show how a progressive de-violation of artistic representation takes place in the novels and how the narrative of the workers’ struggles resembles closely the narrative modules of modern show-based entertainment societies instead of insisting on the heated and violent tones that dominated the literary representations of the 1970s. A cultural genealogy of such representation will be traced in the article.
Original languageItalian
Pages (from-to)126-147
JournalDiacritica
Volume52
Publication statusPublished - 31 Jul 2024

Keywords

  • Seventies
  • Italian cinema
  • Italian literature
  • commedia all'italiana

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