Da Lilliput a Waterloo. Šklovskij, Celati e il canone dello straniamento

Abstract

The article outlines the reception of the concept of estrangement elaborated by Šklovskij in the poetics of Gianni Celati. The Italian writer resumes this concept in his analyses dedicated to Swift and Stendhal, linked to key themes of his work, starting from the deconstruction of logocentric thinking systems. From the pages of Celati, a dialogue also emerges explicitly. It is a dialogue with the genealogy of estrangement reconstructed by C. Ginzburg. A dialogue that moves from epistemological assumptions different from those of the writer, and comes to a different posture towards the knowledge of the real.

Keywords

• Viktor Šklovskij
• Estrantement
• Travel
• Distance
• Gianni Celati
• Carlo Ginzburg