%0 Journal Article
%T The sound and the fury: tre sguardi letterari sull¡¯11-S tra rabbia, incredulit¨¤ e metaletteratura
%A Simone Cattaneo
%J Altre Modernit¨¤
%D 2011
%I Universit¨¤ degli Studi di Milano
%X The aim of the article is to offer three different versions of the 11-S terrorist attacks, showing how Juan Manuel de Prada (Baracaldo, 1970), Ray Loriga (Madrid, 1967) and Enrique Vila-Matas (Barcelona, 1948) reproduce that tragic event in some of their novels ¨C La vida invisible, El hombre que invent¨® Manhattan and El Mal de Montano ¨C employing different techniques and approaches. In that way it¡¯s possible to recognize in their pages an interesting spectrum of emotions that goes from rage to refined literary reflections. Still, the analysis of these texts, reveals a subtle uniformity imposed by the television screen: in the contemporary society, images captured by cameras contribute to create a mould that influences the reception of reality and thus causes both a stereotyped assimilation and a sceptical critique of media news. As we will see, precisely that last attitude raises in the authors an hopeless hope of being the witnesses of an unreal event, a sort of paradoxical will to be integrated in the society of the spectacle (Debord) as a psichological defense against horror.
%K 11 settembre 2001
%K Loriga
%K Prada
%K Vila-Matas
%U http://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/AMonline/article/view/1300