The other side’s myth. The Iron Cortain in fiction, from Claudio Magris to Wu Ming

  • Federico Fastelli University of Florence
DOI: https://doi.org/10.6093/sigma.v0i4.7482

Abstract

The essay aims to analyze the allegorical meaning that the Iron Curtain assumes in some contemporary narrative fictions, from Claudio Magris to Wu Ming. The physical boundary that separates the two worlds becomes in fact an emblematic image of the frontier idea and informs, with all its ambiguity, a theoretical reflection on the precariousness of some dialectical relations which human existence consists of: right-wrong, true-false, inside-outside, known and unknown.

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Author Biography

Federico Fastelli, University of Florence

Federico Fastelli teaches Comparative literature at the University of Florence. His publications include: Dall’eresia all’avanguardia. L’opera poetica di Elio Pagliarani (2011), Il nuovo romanzo. La narrativa d’avanguardia nella prima fase della postmodernità (2013), Epica dell’ottobre. John Reed, la rivoluzione e il mito dei Dieci giorni che sonvolsero il mondo (2018), L’intervista letteraria. Teoria e storia di un genere trascurato (2019).

Published
2020-12-21
How to Cite
FastelliF. (2020). The other side’s myth. The Iron Cortain in fiction, from Claudio Magris to Wu Ming. SigMa - Rivista Di Letterature Comparate, Teatro E Arti Dello Spettacolo, (4), 97-120. https://doi.org/10.6093/sigma.v0i4.7482
Issue
No 4 (2020): The representation of the Cold war in literature and the arts (1947-1989)
Section
Monographic section I

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