The effort and the exercise

Ideas of literature in Tommaso Landolfi and Maurice Blanchot

Authors

  • Giovanni Salvagnini Zanazzo University of Padua

Keywords:

Landolfi, Blanchot, literary theory, self-consciuosness, mysticism

Abstract

This contribution analyses the ideas of literature in Tommaso Landolfi and Maurice Blanchot as a privileged way of accessing authorial poetics. Landolfi is forced to a fragmentary form due to the impact of self-consciousness on his ability to act. This leads to a global depreciation of literature as useless to truth. Instead, Blanchot conceives literature as a way to point out, through a continuative practice, a hidden dimension of silence.

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Author Biography

Giovanni Salvagnini Zanazzo, University of Padua

Giovanni Salvagnini Zanazzo is a PhD student at the University of Padova. His research project investigates the representations of negative subjectivity in twentieth-century Italian and French literature. He studied at Université Grenoble Alpes and has participated in various national and international conferences. He has published essays in academic journals on French Japonism, on Italian and French authors (including Landolfi and Blanchot), and on literary theory.

Published

2025-12-15

How to Cite

Salvagnini Zanazzo, G. (2025). The effort and the exercise: Ideas of literature in Tommaso Landolfi and Maurice Blanchot. SigMa - Rivista Di Letterature Comparate, Teatro E Arti Dello Spettacolo, (9), 357–374. Retrieved from https://serena.sharepress.it/index.php/sigma/article/view/12671

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