O pitoresco mare tenebrarum de O cirurgião do mar, de Gabriele d’Annunzio

Fabiano Dalla Bona; Julia Ferreira Lobão Diniz

doi:10.5433/1678-2054.2021v41p22

The picturesque horror in The surgeon of the sea, by Gabriele D’annunzio

Authors

Fabiano Dalla Bona Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro - UFRJ Universidade de São Paulo - USP https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2195-8835
Julia Ferreira Lobão Diniz Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro - UFRJ https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8554-8558

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5433/1678-2054.2021v41p22

Keywords:

Gabriele D’Annunzio, Hypotyposis, Ekphrasis, Horror

Abstract

Despite the contributions of Gabriele D’Annunzio (1863-1938) to the decadent movement, the author served throughout the 1980s as a great short story writer and journalist, with strong inspiration in the Italian verismo and in French naturalism. These inspirations made D’Annunzio develop what we will call pre-decadentism: narratives about a portion of the population mistreated by society. Trying to give veracity to his stories, the writer adopts, in addition to the zolian technique of direct observation, a very particular aesthetic that comes up against the definition of horror, since themes such as the grotesque, the mortuary and the sick are frequently approached to illustrate the suffering of your characters. The result of this is that, even before adopting a decadentist aesthetic based on ekphrasis - descriptions of works of art - and hypotyposis - pictorial descriptions without reference to a specific picture -, the author used these resources to enrich his naturalist tales; a horror of colors and textures so intense that it evolves into the picturesque. This article aims to analyze the Mare tenebrarum (Bachelard 2015) from the perspective of an aesthetic of horror (Lovecraft 1987; Todorov 1975) and the pictorial language (Louvel 2012) in the work The surgeon of the sea (1886).

Author Biographies

Fabiano Dalla Bona, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro - UFRJ Universidade de São Paulo - USP

Ph.D. in Italian Literature, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro - UFRJ, Professor of Italian Language and Literature at Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro - UFRJ and at Universidade de São Paulo

Julia Ferreira Lobão Diniz, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro - UFRJ

M.A. in Italian Literature, Ph.D. Student at Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro - UFRJ

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2022-02-24

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Dalla Bona, Fabiano, and Julia Ferreira Lobão Diniz. “The Picturesque Horror in The Surgeon of the Sea, by Gabriele D’annunzio”. Terra Roxa E Outras Terras: Revista De Estudos Literários, vol. 41, Feb. 2022, pp. 22-31, doi:10.5433/1678-2054.2021v41p22.

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