Alessandro Buontempo
Articoli e Recensioni pubblicati per La rivista di Arablit
Dinamiche di ricezione e rilettura di un autore e della sua opera: Alberto Moravia e gli scrittori arabi
Articolo della rivista, Anno I, numero 1, giugno 2011
Alberto Moravia is possibly the most widely known and read Italian author in the Arabic countries; at the same time and in despite of this, studies on his production are rare. This essay analyses credits to Moravia as well as considerations on him and his works made since the Sixties [...]
Il crimine nell’opera di Naǧīb Maḥfūẓ
Articolo della rivista, Anno II, numero 3, giugno 2012
This article offers an analysis of the conception of crime in Naǧīb Maḥfūẓ’s oeuvre. Literary criminals and their stories can, in fact, be seen as part of a counter narrative against the dominant conceptions of law, justice and morality imposed by power and authority. This is even more true when [...]
Questioni di genere e lo spazio urbano in alcuni recenti romanzi sauditi
Articolo della rivista, Anno VIII, numero 16, dicembre 2018
The urban phenomenon in the Arab-Islamic world is of particular interest, due to the relevance it had in shaping the cultures of the past and to the rapid explosion of ultramodern megalopolis in these countries. The study of urban space permits analysing what main features a city – be it [...]
The Egyptian Revolution and its Discontent: al-Ṭābūr by Basmah ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz and al-Tamāsīḥ by Yūsuf Raḫā
Articolo della rivista, Anno V, Numeri 9-10, dicembre 2015
This paper focuses on some peculiar ways in which Egyptian literature describes the aftermath of the Arab Spring. While a relevant trend has been documentary, other works searched for different perspectives. The two novels which I will discuss here, al-Ṭābūr (The Queue, 2013) by Basmah ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz and al-Tamāsīḥ (The [...]
Una prospettiva insolita sull’incontro arabo con l’Occidente: al-ʻIṭr al-faransī di Amīr Tāǧ al-Sir
Articolo della rivista, Anno VII, numero 14, dicembre 2017
Amīr Tāǧ al-Sir’s al-ʻIṭr al-faransī (The French Perfume, 2009) is an interesting subversion of the theme of the Arab encounter with the West. In this novel, the news of the forthcoming arrival of a French international project worker, Katia Cadolet, disrupts the relatively quiet and monotonous life in Ḥayy Ġāʼib, a [...]