Franco Manai

L’Affaire Moro, trente ans plus tard

Il s’agit d’une lecture actualisee du pamphlet de Leonardo Sciascia, L’Affaire Moro, publie en 1978, juste quelques mois apres l’enlevement et l’execution du president de la Democratie Chretienne Aldo Moro par Les Brigades Rouges. L’article se concentre sur les nouvelles modalites litteraires que Sciascia met en œuvre en se placant au carrefour d’une tradition litteraire melant la polemique politique facon Courier, la reconstruction historiographique et documentaire du modele manzonien et la veine fantastique de Jorge Luis Borges dans un nouveau creuset dont le principal defi est de combler la fracture entre litterature et realite. L’analyse montre que, precisement parce que les pages de Sciascia donnent une forme a la tragique situation d’impasse politique et ideologique, de decouragement et en meme temps de volonte de reaction a laquelle Moro et les Italiens furent confrontes, elles peuvent constituer un prisme a travers lequel chercher a comprendre non seulement le passe sombre mais aussi les troubles ...

The movie Pinocchio by Roberto Benigni and its reception in the United States

Abstract Roberto Benignis movie Pinocchio, released in 2002 and Italian candidate for the 2003 Oscars, opened in the United States to a barrage of almost unanimously negative criticism, ranging from condescending reprimands to open insults of the same director and actor who had recently given such clear proof of his capacity and talent in the Oscar-winning La vita è bella. This article argues that this response is based on a political and economic agenda that promotes cultural homogenization as a means of supporting the globalization of the contemporary world, which is its acceptance of the American economic, social and cultural model. The film is presented with a discussion on its role in a programmatic cultural discourse that, while opposing such globalization, supports and encourages locality and nationality in an effort to overcome local and national barriers.