ITAL 112 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Radicalization, Politics Of Italy, Direct Democracy
Document Summary
Time of indifference (1929): realist novel on bourgeois = antibourgeois realism ~ Mixture of realism and tragedy < > psychoanalytic. Prologue focused on repression" of abnormality- murder of lizard. Parts 1-2: proof of lino"s death (67-70) = psychoanalytic-tragic dynamic: uncon- scious repression of felings/conformity to fascism. Attracted by prostitute ~ lina (lino) vs. contempt. Confirms identity of quadri/lina they are killed. Epilogue: loss of innocence is part of life acceptance death of air raid psychoanalytic plot-tragic ending avoids question of responsibility. 1946-60: :second risorgimento to forget fascism/collaboration antifascist-resistance" intellectual vs never antifascist or involved in resistance forgetting of his own fascist past. Antifascist culture/strongest western communist party (30%) vs. Christian democrats in power since 1948/ continuity with fascist institutions. 1968 vs all authoritarian structures student-workers occupations (autonomy/ direct democracy) vs active oblivion of fascism. = resistance as failed revolution" vs ended by communist parties betrayal of revolutionary potential.
