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L'Eros Onnipotente: Erotismo, Letteratura E Impegno Nell'Opera Di Pier Paolo Pasolini E Jean Genet
Written by Sergio Parussa
Published: 2003
Code: 88-7763-548-7
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L'Orso Maggiore By Ginevra Bompiani, The Great Bear
Translated by Brian Kern & Sergio Parussa.
Introduction by Sergio Parussa.
Afterword by Blossom S. Kirschenbaum
Publisher: New York: Italica Press
Published: November 2000
ISBN: 0-934977-64-x. Paperback, 104 pp.
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GINEVRA BOMPIANI’S fiction could be compared to
certain figurations of Sleep. The landscape created by her prose
recalls paintings in which peaceful figures sleep in a quiet wood, in a
solitary house — any place where the senses can dim and reason's guard
is dropped. These are places where nothing seems to happen but which
open onto a dream's thousand possibilities. It is precisely into that
borderland — where reason dozes off and makes room for myths, fables,
and dreams — that Ginevra Bompiani’s prose ventures.
Bompiani has been compared to Calvino. Both share a style that
combines philosophical intent with modes of fantasy, a “Mythical
Realism” that uses fairy-tale and mythical tropes to express the
discrepancies in everyday reality. Here the old gods of the sky can
teach us how much our world is haunted by a total absence of spirit.