Contro l’umanità. Traiettorie anti-antropocentriche nella letteratura distopica italiana
Author(s)
Date Issued
2024
Type
article
Volume
XIV.27 (2024
Start Page
255
End Page
272
Journal
Abstract
This essay looks at a series of post-war texts, quite different in terms of purpose, origin, background of their authors, editorial events, and so on, but connected by a transversal interpretation in an anti-anthropocentric perspective. This reading ranges from 1970’s works as Simonetta’s I viaggiatori della sera, Volponi’s Il pianeta irritabile, Morselli’s Dissipatio H.G. or Cassola’s “atomic trilogy” to contemporary works such as Anna by Ammaniti. I will try to draw the threads of those reflections, obviously in a dystopian key, on human beings and their presence on Earth.