Analizzare un testo narrativo non è mai un’operazione immediata. A differenza della poesia, dove la struttura e le figure retoriche spesso “saltano agli occhi”, la prosa si muove in modo più fluido e meno visibile: significati, temi e scelte stilistiche sono intrecciati alla storia e ai personaggi, e richiedono attenzione, metodo e allenamento per essere messi a fuoco. Proprio per questo motivo, è importante avvalersi di una guida per orientarsi nella complessità del testo, a scomporlo nei suoi elementi essenziali e a leggerlo in modo più consapevole e profondo. In questo post presento una scheda per l'analisi di un testo narrativo, da vedere non come una gabbia rigida ma come un metodo per osservare il testo con ordine, coglierne i meccanismi narrativi e trasformare la lettura in uno strumento di comprensione critica. CONTESTUALIZZAZIONE Autore: ___________________________________________________ Titolo dell'opera: ____________________________________________ ...
After graduating from Trinity College, he was appointed English lecturer at the École Normal Supérieure in Paris and, consequently, moved to Paris.
There he came into contact with the French and foreign avant-garde intellectuals and artists of the 1930s such as James Joyce.
He joined the French Resistance during World War II and, in order to escape the Gestapo Police, he worked undercover as a farm labourer in the Avignon area.
He worked as translator and wrote some novels like the trilogy Molloy, Malone Dies and The Unnamable.
These works were written in French and translated in English by Beckett due to achieve greater discipline and economy of expression, as dictated by his main goal: an attempt to explore and describe the human condition.
He became famous thanks to his major play Waiting for Godot and spent the rest of his life writing pays, some for the cinema, radio and television until his death in 1989.
In 1969 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Beckett is considered the father of theatre of the Absurd because his plays always deal with confinement, the inability to communicate and loneliss.
In Endgame (1957), for example, the protagonist Hamm and his parents are legless and their servant is only a man who can walk.
In Krapp’s last tape (1958) an old man listens to a tape recorded when he was younger, and maybe happier. The confessions of the voice on the tape seem to his those of a total stranger.
Finally, Happy days (1961), a play with only two characters, describes the human impotence and its negation: a woman is buried to the waist in Act I and, then, to the neck in Act II, and a man can only crawl on all fours.
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