The Alcoholics of War: Experiencing Chemical and Ideological Drunkenness in Emilio Lussu's "Un anno sull'altipiano"

This article applies the reflections on experience and narrative found in Walter Benjamin's "The Storyteller" to a popular Italian World War I novel, Emilio Lussu's Un anno sull'altipiano. The essay focuses on alcohol abuse repeatedly depicted in the novel as a component tha...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Published in:Mosaic (Winnipeg) 2005-09, Vol.38 (3), p.77-94
Main Author: ROSSI, UMBERTO
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Alcoholic beverages
Alcoholism
Armed forces
Benjamin, Walter
Benjamin, Walter (1892-1940)
Business
Cognac
Drunkenness
Essays
Gestures
Hungarian language
Ideology
Language history
Literary criticism
Literature
Lussu, Emilio
Lussu, Emilio (1890-1975)
Narratives
Novels
Portrayals
Possession
Prose
Soldiers
Storytelling
War
Warfare
World wars
Writers
Online Access:Get full text
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Description
Summary:This article applies the reflections on experience and narrative found in Walter Benjamin's "The Storyteller" to a popular Italian World War I novel, Emilio Lussu's Un anno sull'altipiano. The essay focuses on alcohol abuse repeatedly depicted in the novel as a component that can lead to a dissolution of traditional narrative forms.
ISSN:0027-1276
1925-5683