Like Dante, Consolo also investigates the boundary between what can be said and the unspeakable. He does it in various ways, through the use of metaphors, reflecting on the expressive possibilities of the language, and through authorial quotations. Consolo himself declared in an interview: «I believe that Dante runs in our blood, we absorb it; furthermore, it is the source of my penchant for the indirect quotations». Other aspects of Consol’s poetics can be likened to Dante: the importance of literary memory, the distinction between writing and narrating, the significance of some names, the very civil purpose of literature. The article develops through the comparison between Dante’s texts, in particular the Comedy, and Consolo’s works.
CLIL theme: 4027 -- SCIENCES HUMAINES ET SOCIALES, LETTRES -- Lettres et Sciences du langage -- Lettres -- Etudes littéraires générales et thématiques