Università Roma Tre

Aesthetics of Time.
Forms of Existencial Narratives.


The aesthetic and the challenges of the universal narrative: what does the literary form offer to our conception of time? And what happens when we are not capable to live in our present? The course includes a study of the "distance" as a condition of hermeneutic understanding of life and a possibility to read human actions as a "quasi-text". Memory and Present will be our keys to interpret literary forms of human identity.

• NIETZSCHE, Sull’utilità e il danno della storia per la vita, Adelphi, Milano 2007.

• SENECA, La brevità della vita, Rizzoli, Milano 1999.

• FABRIZIA ABBATE, Paul Ricoeur e il terzo discorso, Editori Riuniti University Press, Roma 2012.

• JOSEPH CONRAD, La linea d’ombra,Einaudi, Torino 1989 (saggio introduttivo di Cesare Pavese).