TY  - CHAP
A1  - Gragnolati, Manuele
T1  - Re-writing Dante after Freud and the Shoah : Giorgio Pressburger's "Nel regno oscuro"
T2  - Metamorphosing Dante : appropriations, manipulations, and rewritings in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries / ed. by Manuele Gragnolati, Fabio Camilletti and Fabian Lampart ; Cultural Inquiry ; 2
N2  - "Nel regno oscuro" is the first part of a planned trilogy inspired by the "Divine Comedy", integrating the Middle European style of Giorgio Pressburger's previous works with the attempt to engage with the first part of Dante's poem. The role of Virgil, Dante's guide in the "Inferno", is taken by Sigmund Freud, and the journey of the melancholic protagonist begins as psychoanalytic therapy to enable him to come to terms with the loss of his father and his twin brother, but soon turns into a journey through the realm of the dead which, like the "Divine Comedy", takes the shape of a series of encounters with the shades of historical figures. Thus Dante's descent to hell metamorphoses into a phantasmagoric voyage to the most intimate and obscure dimensions of the human psyche as well as a journey through the tragic events of history in the twentieth century - and the Shoah in particular. The combination of the personal, the collective, and even the universal is one of the most interesting aspects Pressburger takes from Dante's poem. In the following analysis Manuele Gragnolati explores how both Dante's "Divine Comedy" and Pressburger's "Nel regno oscuro" place personal and collective suffering at the centre of their own narratives and stage writing as a political, ethical, and possibly 'salvific' way to deal with this dual suffering, even as they differ in their concepts of identity and selfhood on the one hand and in their models of history on the other.
KW  - Dante Alighieri
KW  - Divina Commedia
KW  - Rezeption
KW  - Pressburger, Giorgio
KW  - Pressburger, Giorgio: Nel regno oscuro
KW  - Productive reception
KW  - Subjectivity in literature
KW  - The unconcious (Psychology)
KW  - History in literature
KW  - Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
KW  - Psychoanalyse <Motiv>
KW  - Unbewusstes <Motiv>
KW  - Judenvernichtung <Motiv>
KW  - Geschichte <Motiv>
Y1  - 2019
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/51577
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-515777
UR  - https://www.ici-berlin.org/oa/ci-02/gragnolati_after-freud-and-the-shoah.pdf
SN  - 978-3-85132-617-8
SN  - 2627-731X
SP  - 235
EP  - 250
PB  - Turia + Kant
CY  - Wien
ER  -