Moving from the concept of hauntology conceived by Jacques Derrida and through a reflection on Víctor Erice’s The Spirit of the Beehive (1973) the essay investigates the re-appropriation of the historical fact – in particular the Spanish Civil War and the Franco dictatorship – through the recourse to fantastic worlds populated by children, monstrous or phantom figures. As for the French philosopher, also for Víctor Erice history occupies in the present a virtual space of spectrality: the present is acted by a strong spectral causality that affects history by questioning its linearity. How to imaginatively rewrite history to redeem it and authenticate its future?
Hauntologia e riscrittura immaginativa: Lo spirito dell’alveare di Erice
Tassone M
2024-01-01
Abstract
Moving from the concept of hauntology conceived by Jacques Derrida and through a reflection on Víctor Erice’s The Spirit of the Beehive (1973) the essay investigates the re-appropriation of the historical fact – in particular the Spanish Civil War and the Franco dictatorship – through the recourse to fantastic worlds populated by children, monstrous or phantom figures. As for the French philosopher, also for Víctor Erice history occupies in the present a virtual space of spectrality: the present is acted by a strong spectral causality that affects history by questioning its linearity. How to imaginatively rewrite history to redeem it and authenticate its future?I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
