Erri De Luca:
Isle and the Fantastic
Keywords:
Erri De Luca, Isle, Procida, Fantastic, TourismAbstract
This paper proposes a double reading of the novel by Erri De Luca, Tu, mio (1998), set on the island of Procida, at the end of the 50's. In the first place, the configuration of the island is analysed as a tourist spot that imposes its own order and neutralizes the tensions and conflicts existing between tourists of different nationalities and ethnic groups who spend their holidays there. In the second place, following the rules of the fantastic genre, the possible ways in which the island in question is presented as a space that fosters the emergence of a supernatural event are suggested. In the case of this novel, the situation is the possible possession of the body and will of the narrator-protagonist by the spirit of the father, who is another central character in the narrative, murdered in a Nazi extermination camp.
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