Dino Buzzati
L'AmbiguitÀ Della Fantasia
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9817640 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Luciano Parisi (0000-0003-3132-6065, University of Exeter, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2005 |
| Volume | 39 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 83-99 |
| Publication date | 2005-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Forum Italicum A Journal of Italian Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0014-5858 • E-ISSN: 2168-989X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/001458580503900105 |
| OpenAlex | W2084015820 |
| Language | EN |
Imagination allowed Dino Buzzati to play with the readers' expectations, and to escape from stereotypes and conventions. It also allowed him to pay attention to the secret messages that nature seemed to send, and gave him a chance to interpret them. Imagination, finally, made it possible for Buzzati to create fictional worlds, more serene and just than the one in which he lived. In all these cases, imagination played a constructive part in Buzzati's work. There were, however, cases in which it led the writer to take the negative aspects of the world for granted, and provoked an excess of unjustified pessimism. Like everything else in his fiction, therefore, imagination had in Buzzati an ambiguous nature
Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Constructive · Epistemology · Literature · Pessimism · Computer Science · Italian Literature and Culture · Philosophy
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |