Il corpo ‘scodato’. Corporeità umana e non nell’inferno di Horcynus Orca di Stefano D’Arrigo

Abstract

In the world literature’s otherworldly representations, according to their different configurations, the body dimension has had more or less importance. In the infernal world of Horcynus Orca it plays a central role and, in an analogous way to the Dante’s use of the body in the Comedy, is one of the most important instruments used by the writer for the representation of the novel’s post-war hell pains. Furthermore, the broken corporeity that characterizes the novel is not only an instrument of representation, but, in the image of the wounded body, it is itself the allegory of the hell represented.