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The patology of caracters in the Italian novel of the 20th century
Bílková, Jana ; Flemrová, Alice (advisor) ; Pelán, Jiří (referee)
This graduation thesis deals with the patology of characters in the italian novels of the 20th century. The material basis is presented by four following authors: Italo Svevo (1861 - 1928), Dino Buzzati (1906 - 1972), Primo Levi (1919 - 1987) and Carlo Emilio Gadda (1893 - 1973). The attention concentrates on one novel by each of these authors (in the case of Svevo there are all his three finished novels taken into account) whose protagonist can be considered as the bearer of a certain psychopatology: Zeno Cosini from the novel La coscienza di Zeno for the neurosis, Giovanni Drogo from /I Deserto dei Tartari for the anxiety, Primo Levi as a representative of the war trauma in his opera Se questo é un uomo and Gonzalo Pirobutirro from the novel La cognizione del dolore for the depression. The selection of the authors and the novels came from the personal reading experience of the authoress of the thesis and from the conviction of their representativness for the given type of pathology although it is mostly quite complex. Each part deals with the protagonist of the chosen novel and of the fictional world which surrounds him and eventually takes into consideration the context of other works of the same author. In the selected novels, the attention is also given manifestations and the individual image of the...

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