The article devoted to novel La lunga vita di Marianna Ucrìa of Dacia Maraini constitutes a reflection upon cognition by means of senses. The analysis concerns the experience of cognition of the world (people, situations, places) by the main character, deaf and dumb person, whose sensual cognition of the reality is dominated by the sense of sight and smell. The analysis concentrates on the character of smelling sensations, indicating their crucial but forgotten function of the contact with the reality and its interpretation. The article highlights the problem of non verbality and non-divisibility of perceptions of the sense of smell, which the author of the novel Dacia Maraini faced.
The article titled The body we have got, the body we are. About the corporeity in Margaret Mazzantini’s novel treats the phenomenon of corporeity mentioned in the title in a text of the contemporary Italian writer. There are three main aspects of this problem. First, the language connected with the body (descriptions of the look, statements of the body, physiology, erotic life). The next subject is the relationship body-identity. Finally, there is the sense of smell emphasized in the narration, which has a symbolic meaning as well.
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