M. Yourcenar’s Denier du rêve: a Pirandellian reading of a political critique of the thirties
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Yourcenarian essays published around 1920-30 constitute a veritable laboratory of ideas from which the author drew for the creation of her works. The brief reference to Pirandello in “Diagnostic de l’Europe” attests to our hypothesis, enabling us to make an interesting rereading of Denier du rêve. Starting with Pirandello’s comments on cinema, we were able to grasp another aspect of the novel, while at the same time shedding light on Yourcenar’s critique of fascism: the role of image culture in the establishment of a totalitarian regime such as Italian fascism.
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