ILCS 1160 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Ennio Flaiano, Aryan Race, Mediterranean Race
16 May 2018
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Notes 3/22/18
A Time to Kill
● Written by Ennio Flaiano
○ “Fascist’s divided into 2 categories, fascist and anti-fascist”
○ Tries to use this book to put this experience behind him
■ Focuses on internal feelings “allegory”
● Story
○ Character has a toothache and wants to take off
○ Mal d’Africa
■ Place drives you to it
● People should colonize in Africa
■ Not the place the narrator thought it would be
● “Trees are flimsy and fragile
● Not a logical place
○ Has letter from his wife in coat pocket
■ Connects to another human being
■ Confirms his existence
○ Describes his wife
■ “Sad, monotonous”
■ Timeless beauty
● “She knew nothing of her own beauty”
■ Lazy
○ Meets African girl
■ Pushes him away
● He can’t understand that
■ Soldier sees this as inevitable to “conquer the women that are there”
■ Tries to give her items
● EX: coins, watch
○ He thinks she thinks the watch is a wedding band/promise
○ Ego
■ Allows you to know what it be to be a man
● War/Conquering
○ Becoming dominant
○ While he’s sleeping with this girl
■ Sees shadows that freak him out
● Decides to shoot at it
○ Goes after it
■ Finds out that its the woman
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Document Summary
Fascist"s divided into 2 categories, fascist and anti-fascist . Tries to use this book to put this experience behind him. Character has a toothache and wants to take off. Not the place the narrator thought it would be. Has letter from his wife in coat pocket. She knew nothing of her own beauty . Soldier sees this as inevitable to conquer the women that are there . He thinks she thinks the watch is a wedding band/promise. Allows you to know what it be to be a man. Denies that it was him, believes it was something else. Left with a cut on his hand. Jews make up 0. 1% of the italian population. Many are well-educated; jews are present in all professions. Establishes the racial unity of germany and italy. Member of direzione generale per la demografia e la razza. Claims the legacy of remote mediterranean race that was nonetheless similar.
