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Thesis etd-04102009-175950


Thesis type
Tesi di laurea vecchio ordinamento
Author
BRAMBINI, ANNALISA
URN
etd-04102009-175950
Thesis title
Fantasmi in scena: per una lettura di Eclipse di John Banville
Department
LINGUE E LETTERATURE STRANIERE
Course of study
LINGUE E LETTERATURE STRANIERE
Supervisors
Relatore Dott.ssa Giovannelli, Laura
Keywords
  • doppio
  • fantasmi
  • identità
  • performance
Graduation session start date
18/05/2009
Availability
Partial
Release date
18/05/2049
Summary
Alexander Cleave, the 50-year-old protagonist of John Banville's ice sculpture of a novel, is not an easy fellow to love. A brilliant actor and unrepentant narcissist, he has spent his life onstage infiltrating other people's psyches, where he is far more comfortable than in his own.
But love is rarely the point in Banville's fiction, a landscape as beautifully austere
and cold as the desert at night. Instead it is the commodity sorely missing throughout these hollow ed lives, the empty air space around which grand but defective edifices are built.
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