Isotopie Della Nazione E Della Patria Locale In Luigi Meneghello

Abstract

This paper aims at defining the issue of national identity in Meneghello’s oeuvre in terms of productive deformation and isotopic re-contextualization of national history. The latter is re-lived and above all re-encoded in terms of autobiographical
reflexion and literary imagination, where it settles as a form of pluricultural memory. Such a memory is not referential as regards a real context which is revealed to be not recoverable. Thus the act of remembering cannot reproduce reality but produce it in its forms of “glassy essence”, as the author says, of an almost immortal substance, not tied to the perishability of experience.