La letteratura della postmemoria, caratteristiche e peculiarità. Gábor T. Szántó e le sue storie

Authors

  • Simona Nicolosi University of Szeged

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.6093/1826-753X/10826

Keywords:

Gábor T. Szántó, Hungarian Literature, Marianne Hirsch, Postmemory, Shoah

Abstract

English article title:  The literature of postmemory, characteristics and peculiarities. Gábor T. Szántó and his stories

The aim of this essay is to investigate the characteristics and peculiarities of postmemory literature and its relationship with Holocaust memoirs. Taking into account Marianne Hirsch’s suggestions on Postmemory and the literary legacies of Primo Levi and Imre Kertész, the author seeks to define the new generation of writers who evoke the Holocaust not through personal recollection but through imaginative investment, projection, and creation – as Hirsch herself states. Specifically, attention is focused on the Hungarian writer Gábor T. Szántó (b. 1966) and on his stories: as regards style and content. A new scenario in contemporary literature is now opened.

Author Biography

Simona Nicolosi, University of Szeged

Simona Nicolosi (<simona.nicolosi@fastwebnet.it>), with tenure in the Italian public school, is a doctoral candidate at the University of Szeged (Irodalom és Kultúratudományi Doktori Iskola) in 2023-2027. She received her PhD degree in European History from Sapienza University of Rome in 2010. Her research focuses on Hungarian history and literature in modern and contemporary times. Author of several articles, in 2013 and 2018 she published two monographs: Guardando ad est (it analyzes the extent to which Italian foreign policy dealt with the political project of a confederation of states in the Danube area) and L’eredità del Beccaria in terra magiara (which is dedicated to the historical and linguistic analysis of the Hungarian editions of Cesare Beccaria’s Dei delitti e delle pene). She has been on the editorial board of Rivista di Studi Ungheresi since 2021. Other affiliations: Hungarian Academy of Sciences, corresponding member (since 2022), Institute for the History of the Risorgimento, ordinary member (since 2022), Dalmatian Society of Homeland History, ordinary member (since 2023).

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Published

2023-12-21

How to Cite

Nicolosi, S. (2023). La letteratura della postmemoria, caratteristiche e peculiarità. Gábor T. Szántó e le sue storie. Studi Finno-Ugrici, n.S., 3, 1–16. https://doi.org/10.6093/1826-753X/10826

Issue

Vol. 3 (2023): SFU – Studi Finno-Ugrici, n.s.

Section

Literary Studies