Tipos y lugares de la enfermedad en la obra de Giuseppe Bonaviri

Authors

  • Vicente González Martín , Universidad de Salamanca ,

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14409/hf.v0i20.9639

Keywords:

Illness, Medicine, Hospital, Cure, Death, Drugs, Sicily, Family

Abstract

The theme of illness in the history of literature in general and in Italian literature, in particular, goes back a long time because it is rooted in the deepest part of the human existence from birth to death, and in many cases it conditions the life-course of a writer, as it happened with Giuseppe Bonaviri, who was born in  Mineo in 1924 and died in Frosinone in 2009. He was a Sicilian writer who loved his country, his family and his friends and a person of fragile physical constitution. Perhaps for this reason, and because of his profession as a medical doctor, illness always accompanied him in life and in literature, and his poetic language was abundantly nourished by the materials that both illness and medicine offered him.

Author Biography

  • Vicente González Martín, , Universidad de Salamanca,

    Catedrático de Filología Italiana de la Universidad de Salamanca (España), ha sido Vicerrector, Director del Departamento de Filología Moderna, actualmente Decano de la Facultad de Filología, Presidente de la Sociedad Española de Italianistas, Director de la Cátedra Sicilia, Director de RSEI. Revista de la Sociedad Española de Italianistas, miembro de numerosas agencias españolas e internacionales de evaluación, ha publicado numerosos libros y artículos, de los cuales unos sesenta están dedicados a la literatura comparada italo–española.

References

Published

2020-09-25

Issue

Section

Dos, paseos por los bosques narrativos (un lugar para la ficción)

How to Cite

Tipos y lugares de la enfermedad en la obra de Giuseppe Bonaviri. (2020). El Hilo De La Fabula, 20, 83-97. https://doi.org/10.14409/hf.v0i20.9639

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