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Title: Alberto Savinio's Alcesti di Samuele in the Aftermath of the Second World War
Contributor(s): Torello, Giulia  (author)
Publication Date: 2010
DOI: 10.1353/cdr.2010.0014
Handle Link: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/31094
Abstract: In the aftermath of the Second World War, Alcesti di Samuele (Alcestis, Daughter of Samuel), by Italian writer, painter, set designer, and composer Alberto Savinio (1891–1952), voices the anxiety that surrounds the difficult process of postwar reconstruction. Savinio warns against the dangerous manifestations of nationalism that are ingrained in human nature, arguing that the only solution against future threats of totalitarianism is to take refuge in one's intellect, to maintain a critical detachment and resist propagandistic enticements. As Brecht had parodied the rise of Hitler and the Nazi party in The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui,1 Savinio rationalizes past events through a deconstruction of the myth of the dictator as a supernatural being.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Source of Publication: Comparative Drama, 44(4), p. 533-535
Publisher: Western Michigan University, Department of English
Place of Publication: United States of America
ISSN: 1936-1637
0010-4078
Fields of Research (FoR) 2020: 470507 Comparative and transnational literature
470518 Literature in Italian
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2020: 130203 Literature
Peer Reviewed: Yes
HERDC Category Description: C1 Refereed Article in a Scholarly Journal
Appears in Collections:Journal Article
School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences

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