Article: Aldo Palazzeschi's: Riflessi or, writing as erasure.(Book Review)

Aldo Palazzeschi's :Riflessi or, Writing as Erasure by Enrico Cesaretti

This article addresses the issue of self-effacement in the earliest novel by Aldo Palazzeschi. The epistolary nature of the novel is first emphasized and then read through the connection Jacques Derrida posits between identity and postal exchange in La Carte postale. Such a theoretical connection is then used as the basis for studying an 'ascetic' pattern of renunciation and consumption of the subject/protagonist in this text. The potential link of such an 'ascetic' disposition with issues regarding an eminently modernist attitude towards literary communication and creation is finally ...

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