The purpose of this paper is to analyze the images through which violence manifests itself, in all its modalities, within Aglaja Veteranyi’s two novels: Warum das Kind in der Polenta kocht [Why the Child is Cooking in the Polenta] and Das Regal der letzten Atemzüge [The Shelf of the Last Breaths]. In the background there is the institutional violence exercised by the dictatorial regime, which will lead the author’s family to flee Romania, a place that the protagonist will not stop recognizing as “home”. Then the attention will be focused on the dramatic family and social situation, on the unresolved dynamic of self-recognition in relation to the other, in which the linguistic question will play a fundamental role in terms of incommunicability, which is echoed by a narrative style that reflects the author’s intimate lacerations.

Declinazioni della violenza nei romanzi di Aglaja Veteranyi

Danilo De Salazar
2024-01-01

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the images through which violence manifests itself, in all its modalities, within Aglaja Veteranyi’s two novels: Warum das Kind in der Polenta kocht [Why the Child is Cooking in the Polenta] and Das Regal der letzten Atemzüge [The Shelf of the Last Breaths]. In the background there is the institutional violence exercised by the dictatorial regime, which will lead the author’s family to flee Romania, a place that the protagonist will not stop recognizing as “home”. Then the attention will be focused on the dramatic family and social situation, on the unresolved dynamic of self-recognition in relation to the other, in which the linguistic question will play a fundamental role in terms of incommunicability, which is echoed by a narrative style that reflects the author’s intimate lacerations.
2024
Aglaja Veteranyi, Violence, Romanian Dictatorship, Body, Trauma
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