Due voci sul mar Nero: Luca Desiato alla (ri)scoperta dell’esilio ovidiano
Year: 2020
Type: article
Abstract: The elegies of Tristia and Epistulae ex Ponto still represent an essential reference for those who want to investigate the experience of exile in all its aspects and complexity. Not surprisingly, several contemporary authors have looked at the tomitan poetry of the last Ovid as a real paradigm for the writings from and on the exile of all times. In the forty-four chapters in which he articulates the novel On the shores of the Black Sea (1992), Luca Desiato “breaks down” the human soul touched by the fate of the exile, an exile that presents itself as an interior condemnation. The protagonist, a writer who lives the last course of his existence in the bourgeois Rome of the Nineties, alternates his voice with that of the Roman poet, condemned by Augustus in 8 A.D. to the relegatio perpetua. Saverio represents, first of all, an exile of existence, a prisoner of the last time he’s living, an extreme time, like the lands facing the Pontus Euxinus.
DOI: 10.5209/cfcl.71534
Author: Dalila D’Alfonso
Institution: University of Foggia
Language: Italian
Subfield: General Arts and Humanities
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W3124079286