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        <title type="main">«Truth is an odd number». La narrativa di Flann O’Brien e il fantastico</title>
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            <surname>Milli</surname>
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        <title>Biblioteca di Studi di Filologia Moderna</title>
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        <p>Starting from the main theories about the imaginary - from the Freudian category of Unheimliche and the Todorovian category of hésitation up to the most recent contributions - the volume highlights the imaginary elements of instability in Flann O'Brien's narrative. In particular, the author analyses the discontinuities and irreconcilable contradictions of the Irish writer's textual systems, the idiosyncratic and fragmented representation of the characters, the ambiguous coexistence of natural and supernatural, the problematic relationship between signifier and signified. Malapropisms, neologisms, linguistic tics, nonsense and a series of meta-narrative games seem to compromise the search for reliable answers within the Obrienian cosmos in which truth is, in fact, an odd number.</p>
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        <p>A partire dalle principali teorie sul fantastico – dalla categoria freudiana di Unheimliche e da quella todoroviana di hésitation fino ai contributi più recenti – il volume mette in rilievo gli elementi di instabilità di tipo fantastico presenti nella narrativa di Flann O’Brien. In particolare, vengono analizzate le discontinuità e le contraddizioni inconciliabili dei sistemi testuali dello scrittore irlandese, la rappresentazione idiosincratica e frammentata dei personaggi, l’ambigua convivenza di naturale e sovrannaturale, il problematico rapporto tra significanti e significati. Malapropismi, neologismi, tic linguistici, nonsense e una serie di giochi metanarrativi sembrano compromettere la ricerca di risposte attendibili all’interno del cosmo obrieniano nel quale la verità, appunto, è un numero dispari.</p>
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