L'Analisi Linguistica e Letteraria

Year 22 No. 1-2 (2014): Issue 1-2/2014
Articles

Fleeing War. Due strategie di diserzione letteraria:I parenti del Sud di Carlo Montella e Going After Cacciato di Tim O’Brien

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  • Giulio Segato

Published 10/10/2014

Keywords

  • Desertion,
  • O’Brien Tim,
  • Montella Carlo,
  • War Literature

How to Cite

Segato, G. (2014). Fleeing War. Due strategie di diserzione letteraria:I parenti del Sud di Carlo Montella e Going After Cacciato di Tim O’Brien. L’Analisi Linguistica E Letteraria, 22(1-2), 107–114. Retrieved from https://www.analisilinguisticaeletteraria.eu/index.php/ojs/article/view/279
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Abstract

This paper investigates two kinds of desertions represented in two war novels: Carlo Montella’s I parenti del Sud and Tim O’Brien’s Going After Cacciato. I claim that the desertions described in these novels are directly linked with the specific war that is the backdrop of the book. The hero of I
parenti del sud, still confused by Fascist ideology, deserts and runs away to a relative’s house in order to clear his head. Instead, in Going After Cacciato the protagonist’s desertion seems to have the same grotesque and bizarre traits of the background conflict: The Vietnam War.

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