Ascetic Images by Achille Castaldo - 9798855805000

Ascetic ImagesAnna Maria Ortese and Roberto Rossellini in the Underworld\nAuthor(s): Achille Castaldo\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: State University of New York Press, United States\nImprint: State University of New York Press\nISBN-13: 9798855805000, 979-8855805000\nSynopsis\nExamines the narrative articulation of social invisibility in works by two of the most influential Italian cultural producers of the twentieth century.\n\nThe product of centuries of systemic violence and active marginalization, the lumpenproletariat haunts modernity and its afterlives, from the dark corners of the industrial metropolis to present-day slums. Ascetic Images explores the Neapolitan version of this enigmatic social group as it enters the works of writer Anna Maria Ortese and filmmaker Roberto Rossellini in the postWorld War II era. An exercise in critical narratology of film and literature, the book reconstructs the \""ascetic images\"" inscribed in their textsthe traces of the traumatic experience .