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Edited book | La detection della critica
Chapter | Progressione narrativa e climax nel Critico d’arte di Dino Buzzati

Progressione narrativa e climax nel Critico d’arte di Dino Buzzati

Abstract

Buzzati’s brief tale Il critico d’arte (1956), whose main character impatiently writes and rewrites his review of a painting exhibition, each time in a more obscure and nonsensical language, has generally been interpreted as a mere parody of the pretentious style of art critics. As a result, its narrative frame, characterised by a rhetorical crescendo known in Buzzati’s terms as progressione, has often been neglected. Nevertheless, the three drafts of the critic’s review scattered in the tale can itself be considered as part of the narrative progression. As a matter of fact, the three versions build an expressive climax, reproducing, on a microtextual level, the wider rhetorical crescendo of the tale.


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Published Oct. 28, 2020 | Language: it

Keywords Rhetorical climax • Narrative progression • 20th century Italian short prose • Dino Buzzati

Copyright © 2020 Daniele Baglioni. This is an open-access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction is permitted, provided that the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. The license allows for commercial use. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

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