Kritik. Rivista di letteratura e critica culturale

Introduzione per un taccuino ischitano

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Testimonianze dal mare

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Ischia is an island with many identities, and engage with the Genius Loci, the spirit of the place, means going back to the “natural forces” of its landscape, in relation to the stratification of its past. For of its special strategic position and safe harbours, Ischia was a protagonist in the earliest history of the Mediterranean and represents an essential mainpoint in the understanding of the dynamics of transmarine contacts in the Bronze Age, becoming a nodal point in the subsequent Greek colonisation of the West. If men navigated the Mediterranean looking for ports-landing to trade, on the same routes the imposing and shiny pelagic fish: the tuna, also “sailed” regularly since prehistoric times. Tuna fishing has been carried out on Ischia since ancient times. Tuna fisheries were located in strategic positions, which coincide with topographical punctuality with archaeological sites that dominate the coastline below, and are often connected to a double port-landing area. The sea offers illuminating evidence of its past – a sea that narrates not only trade routes and food resources, but also shipwrecks and material culture: the Archaeological Museum of Pithecusae exhibits the finds discovered by Giorgio Buchner and we can see, among others, the Cup of Nestor and the Crater of Shipwreck.

Già sono quattordici anni ne’ quali […] ogni anno vado visitando questi bagni d’Ischia

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In 1588, Giulio Iasolino published De’ rimedi naturali che sono nell’isola di Pithecusa; hoggi detta Ischia, a balneotherapy work dedicated to the enhancement and promotion of the island’s thermal baths. This study demonstrates that the physician-author navigates seamlessly between tradition and innovation. On one hand, his profound knowledge of the medical-thermal genre, whose origins are attributed to Pietro da Eboli (c. 1160-c. 1220), is well-established. On the other hand, Iasolino is the first author to address this subject in vulgar, breaking with the exclusively Latin tradition that had characterized it until then.

Il viaggio come martirio: santa Restituta tra Ischia e Napoli

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A hagiographic text in Latin written in the 10th century by Pietro Suddiacono Napoletano is dedicated to Santa Restituta, patron saint of the island of Ischia. Restituta, of African origin, arrives in Ischia at the end of a tragic journey. The Romans discover her as a Christian, and condemn her to an atrocious death: they set fire to a small boat and, placing the girl on it, they abandon the boat to the waves so Restituta arrives in Ischia already dead.

Il volo del “Moscone”: Vincenzo Ragognetti giornalista tra Napoli e São Paulo

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The flight of the “Moscone” to Brazil was a journey of a cultural model, identifiable in the Neapolitan literary journalism of the late nineteenth century. That of the “Moscone” inaugurated by the brilliant Italian journalist, Matilde Serao, in Il Mattino and followed by the Italian-Brazilian writer, Vincenzo Ragognetti, in Il Moscone, founded in São Paulo, in 1925.

The influence suffered by Ragognetti, during his two-year stay in Naples, was evident in his relevant journalistic and literary activity in São Paulo. In addition to collaborating and directing newspapers and writing works in different genres, he created his own periodical, Il Moscone, which, for example of the Mosconi della Serao, reported with irony, vivacity and movement the social life of the Italian Borghese society in the Paulistan capital of the twenties and the middle of the last century.

Ischia, l’isola che non c’è di Ingeborg Bachmann

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In 1953 German the composer Hans Werner Henze invited Ingeborg Bachmann, an Austrian writer established on the international literary scene, to the island of Ischia. From an impossible love, an intense poetic-musical partnership was born. Songs of an Island were composed between August and September 1953 in Ischia, in a period that marked a turning point in the poetics of Ingeborg Bachmann, who from this moment began to reflect on the relationship between musical composition and writing. The contribution illustrates through Bachmann‘s Songs that the island in her post-World War II poetry, like literature is a utopia, is a mixture of things past and found, is the hope we shape by adapting our cultural heritage to the needs of the moment to look beyond the present to the unknown future. The island is the utopian motif of Bachmannian lyric poetry, it is Limesgefühl, or sense of the limine of the redeemed word capable of foreshadowing a new world after the war and Shoah. The existence of an island in a never-reassuring sea thus remains perpetually uncertain, it is a negative, unrealizable utopia, but it is also the place from which one can look far, toward a land of choice, it is a passage between the old land and the new.

Caleidoscopio ischitano

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In the wake of the volume Dadapolis. Caleidoscopio napoletano, by Fabrizia Ramondino and Andreas Friedrich Müller, this contribution accepts the invitation by pointing the ‘magic tube’ at Ischia, and changing the rules of the game a little. The testimonies collected here are exclusively by Italian travellers, and only from the eighteenth century to the present day, i.e. from the time when the civilisation of modern travel was born with the Grand Tour. This is a considerable limitation of the field of enquiry, which nevertheless remains very broad: from the Age of Enlightenment onwards, the accounts of those who visited the island are innumerable. An ample registry is proposed here following a thematic but not temporal order, because what guides us in the choice of topics is a travel account by an Italian in Italy, chosen as Baedeker, Carlo Bernari’s Taccuino Ischitano. The aim of the research is to create an evocative ‘Ischian kaleidoscope’, collecting testimonies by frequenters – whether regular or not – of the island, such as Spallanzani, Stoppani, Piovene, Comisso, Regaldi, Barilli, Gamba, Monnelli, Pasolini...

Solo: Io e Ischia. L’Isola Verde attraverso Pier Paolo Pasolini

2025-04-14T10:31:07+00:00

The paper aims to reconstruct the relationship between Pier Paolo Pasolini and the island of Ischia. The aim is, firstly, to illustrate the stages of this encounter and its modalities: the writer, in fact, first got to know the island through the eyes of the painter Luigi De Angelis and then went there in person, with the aim of producing a reportage on the Italian beaches. On the other hand, the intention is to highlight the value that the island assumed in Pasolini’s eyes, the meanings with which it and its inhabitants are charged within its pages.

Raumzeitkonfigurationen und Positionierungen in Migrations-Erzählungen

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Bakhtin’s notion of chronotopos, understood as a cognitive concept as well as a feature of narrative itself1, offers a concise conceptual framework for analysing the complex relationship between references to a broader cultural context and shared knowledge, to collective memories of events, personal experiences, and to the here and now of the interview situation that characterises the interviews collected in the Israel Corpus.

In these narrative interviews, the speakers repeatedly address anti-Semitic experiences, which are often in the context of symbolic spatial markers with anti-Semitic content. In quite a few cases, these experiences lead directly to migration and are remembered as fractures in life history, which is why they can be described as chronotopos of the crisis or turning point in life2. The present study, which selects Kristine Hecker’s interview with the commercial artist Franz Krausz from the research corpus compiled in a recent study3, focuses in its detailed linguistic analysis on the complex interplay between the chronotopes invoked as well as on the contribution that orientation in time and space makes to the positioning of self and other on the part of the narrator.

Introduzione

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Jean Giraudoux, French writer and diplomat, is best known in Italy as a playwright. However, he also dedicated himself to fiction: indeed, his novel Scelta delle Elette represents a profound analysis of the marital crisis and the human condition. The main character, Édmée, abandons her family, triggering an unsolvable crisis. Her escape and her relationships with the other characters of the novel reflect a desire for separation from the male world, without however offering decisive solutions. Written between 1938 and 1939, in a context of growing historical oppression, the work represents an escape from the anguish of reality, sublimated in lyrical and evocative prose: therefore, this Italian translation of Choix des Élues aims to enhance this lesser-known dimension of Giraudoux’ production, highlighting its literary depth and relevance.

Scelta delle elette

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Profili bibliografici

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