ID Scheda #9707
- Sezione
- Critica
- Tipo di risorsa
- articolo su periodico culturale
- Autore
- Letteri, Richard; Lozano-Alonso, Angélica
- Titolo
- The Pleasure of Devouring Marriage, Mexico, and Gorditas Pellizcadas con Manteca in Italo Calvino's “Under the Jaguar Sun”
- Titolo del periodico
- Cincinnati Romance Review
- Specifiche del periodico
- 39
- Editore
- Department of Romance Languages, University of Cincinnati
- Data di pubblicazione
- 2015
- Pagine
- 239-254
- Lingua
- inglese
- Paese di pubblicazione
- Stati Uniti
- Abstract
- Italo Calvino’s “Under the Jaguar Sun” is an attempt to move beyond the Lacanian split of masculine and feminine jouissance to a Barthian sense of the pleasure based on the phonetics of language. Throughout the story, the main character’s understanding of Mexico, pleasure, food, Other, and cannibalism are transformed resulting in the narrator and his wife’s ability to consume and be consumed by each other. The story successfully breaks away from the constraints of language and as such imitates and achieves the pleasure of reading theorized throughout the story.
- Opera collegata
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- Sotto il sole giaguaro [raccolta postuma]