The Art of Reasonable Lie

  • Andrea Cannas University of Cagliari
  • Giovanni Cara University of Padua
DOI: https://doi.org/10.13125/medea-2430
Keywords: One Thousand and One Nights, Dante, Calvino, De André, Levi, Pantoli, Velázquez, Dalí, Foucault, Las Meninas

Abstract

This article is the report of a lecture-sample, held in partnership by the two authors, conceived as preparatory and introductory to a class on poetic writing.
Taking as example several texts of literary and figurative tradition, we discuss the topic of the relationship between truth and lies, fiction and reality, the stage and the audience, in order to show how the game of language  can be more serious (and useful) than it seems.

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Author Biographies

Andrea Cannas, University of Cagliari
Andrea Cannas is researcher (Assistant Professor) of Italian Literature at the Department of Philology, Literature and Linguistics of the University of Cagliari. He has published monographs and essays on Leopardi, Bruno, Galilei, Pavese, Calvino, Deledda, Satta, Atzeni, and widely analized the 20th century adaptations of classical myths, Italian songwiters (De André), and comics. He is a writer of short stories and an editor of the literary journal Portales.
Giovanni Cara, University of Padua
Researcher of Spanish Literature at the University of Padua. Among his latest publications, in collaboration with Anna Bognolo and Stefano Neri, Repertorio delle continuazioni italiane ai romanzi cavallereschi spagnoli. Ciclo di Amadis di Gaula, collana “l’Europa delle corti”, Bulzoni, Roma 2013; study and traduction of Condenado por desconfiado, in Maria Grazia Profeti (ed.), Lope de Vega Carpio, Tirso de Molina, Miguel de Cervantes, Il teatro dei Secoli d’Oro, vol. I, Classici della letteratura europea, Bompiani, Milano 2014.
Published
2016-07-30
How to Cite
Cannas, A., & Cara, G. (2016). The Art of Reasonable Lie. Medea, 2(1). https://doi.org/10.13125/medea-2430
Issue
Vol 2 No 1 (2016): Images, Memories and Knowledge in Transit
Section
Countercurrent
NBN
https://nbn.depositolegale.it/resolver.pl?nbn=urn%3Anbn%3Ait%3Aunica-17943

Copyright (c) 2016 Andrea Cannas, Giovanni Cara

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