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Tra fantastico e meraviglioso: La casa «cubista» di Flann O’Brien
2006-08-22T07:35:48Z
Abstract
This paper will focus on one of the most extraordinary novels of the twentieth century, The third policeman, by the Irish writer Brian O'Nolan, who was born in Tyrone in 1911 and died in Dublin in 1966, and who wrote under the pseudonym of Flann O'Brien. The third policeman is a novel which leans completely toward the ‘fantastic’ in the Todorovian sense of the term, but inside, within the layered construction of its mental levels, it takes the reader on an amazing journey into the “deformation space” which is typical of Cubism, and particularly through the construction of objects, including the famous house in which the crime takes place. What do we mean by ‘cubist’ house? A building where, according to one of the fundamental principles elaborated by Braque and Picasso, the viewer witnesses a proliferation of points of view, so that what appears structurally linked to a given volume is turned into a sum of planes, all contemporarily represented. This description, with a total visual fluidity, introduces the protagonist of the novel into the warped world of pure perception, in which no logic can link an object to another, a phrase or a word to a silence, an action to a specific end.
Series
Polymnia. Studi di Filologia Classica 6
Languages
it
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