Jeux de temporalité et intention prophétique : une lecture de trois romans apocalyptiques contemporains
This article intends to explore the temporalities in play in apocalyptic literature –a modern descendant of a religious genre whose epitome is the Apocalypse of John– through the reading of three contemporary novels: Il pianeta irritabile by Paolo Volponi (1978), Il re del magazzino by Antonio Porta...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | fra |
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École Normale Supérieure de Lyon Editions
2018-06-01
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| Series: | Laboratoire Italien |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/laboratoireitalien/2360 |
| Summary: | This article intends to explore the temporalities in play in apocalyptic literature –a modern descendant of a religious genre whose epitome is the Apocalypse of John– through the reading of three contemporary novels: Il pianeta irritabile by Paolo Volponi (1978), Il re del magazzino by Antonio Porta (1978) and Sirene by Laura Pugno (2007). This subgenre of science fiction, far from predicting assertively an inevitable future, uses the resources of imagination to depict more or less verisimilar futures which are in fact stylized and hyperbolic reflects of the present. The representation of the end of the world appears both as the consequence of contemporary social ills and as a particularly pessimistic metaphor of society. One can therefore consider that the novels analysed here perform a prophetic function, in as much as they offer a different outlook on reality –past, present and future– so as to reveal invisible truths to the ordinary readers and therefore provoke a realization capable of having an indirect effet on the future that the novels pretend to predict. |
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| ISSN: | 1627-9204 2117-4970 |