Starting from the critics’ observations about the structure of Microcosmi, the essay focuses on the key role played by the love story between the protagonist-narrator and his wife Marisa, a sort of rewriting of Orpheus and Eurydice’s myth. Convergences and variations between the classic vulgate of the myth and the pseudo-rewriting of Microcosmi are highlighted. The essay also focuses on the Indian myth of Savitri and Sátiavan, to understand the source of the many substantial variations and, in particular, the reversal of roles between male and female characters. This myth turns out to be a privileged source for the rewritings of the Orpheus’ myth that are offered by Magris in his Microcosmi.
University of Florence, Italy
Titolo del capitolo
La rielaborazione dei mitemi orfici in Microcosmi. Tra vulgata classica e favola indiana
Autori
Andrea Fallani
Lingua
Italian
DOI
10.36253/978-88-5518-338-3.27
Opera sottoposta a peer review
Anno di pubblicazione
2021
Copyright
© 2021 Author(s)
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Licenza dei metadati
Titolo del libro
Firenze per Claudio Magris
Curatori
Ernestina Pellegrini, Federico Fastelli, Diego Salvadori
Opera sottoposta a peer review
Anno di pubblicazione
2021
Copyright
© 2021 Author(s)
Licenza d'uso
Licenza dei metadati
Editore
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/978-88-5518-338-3
eISBN (pdf)
978-88-5518-338-3
eISBN (xml)
978-88-5518-339-0
Collana
Biblioteca di Studi di Filologia Moderna
e-ISSN della collana
2420-8361