« Strange people, you are! » : le rite de la figliata dans La pelle de Curzio Malaparte

In chapter V of Curzio Malaparte’s La pelle (1949), the autodiegetic narrator recounts attending a figliata, a ritual practised in Campania that consists in a man simulating the act of giving birth to a boy. While Malaparte’s highly dramatised account is often cited in scholarly works on the subject...

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Main Author: Cécile Mitéran
Format: Article
Language:fra
Published: École Normale Supérieure de Lyon Editions 2024-12-01
Series:Laboratoire Italien
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/laboratoireitalien/12812
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