Gothic landscape, memory and food: A reading of Valerio Varesi’s The Dark Valley
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Field | Value | |
Title | Gothic landscape, memory and food: A reading of Valerio Varesi’s The Dark Valley Gotiese landskap, herinnering en kos: ’n Lesing van Valerio Varesi se The Dark Valley [Die Donker Vallei] | |
Creator | Kreuiter, Allyson | |
Description | What is known as Mediterranean Noir has crimes that occur in a landscape set under the azure skies and seashores of cities such as Marseille, Barcelona or even Venice. In contrast, Italian writer, Valerio Varesi, relocates his crime novels to the more rural landscapes of villages in Tuscany and Emilia-Romagna. In these places, it is the landscape of mist, rivers and mountains that creates the noir Gothic narrative and atmosphere surrounding the crimes committed. My article will examine how, in Varesi’s The Dark Valley, a subtle fusing of the devices of landscape, food and a Gothic disruption of the return of the past into the present are central to the story world of the novel. This dislocation between past and present, I contend, will lead to Varesi’s detective, Commissario Soneri, questioning his own identity. Die Mediterreense Noir is bekend vir misdade wat plaasvind in ‘n landskap met asuurblou hemel en seekuste van stede soos Marseille, Barcelona of selfs Venesië. In teenstelling hiermee, plaas die Italiaanse skrywer Valerio Varesi sy misdaadromans in die meer landelike landskappe van dorpe in Toskane en Emilia-Romagna. In hierdie plekke is dit die landskap van mis, riviere en berge wat die Noir Gotiese vertelling en atmosfeer skep waardeur die misdade wat gepleeg word, omring is. My artikel sal ondersoek hoe, in Varesi se The Dark Valley[Die Donker Vallei], ’n subtiele saamsmelting van die tegnieke van landskap, kos en ’n Gotiese ontwrigting van die terugkeer van die verlede na die hede sentraal tot die storiewêreld van die roman is. Hierdie ontwrigting tussen die verlede en die hede, sal, volgens my, daartoe lei dat Varesi se speurder, kommissaris Soneri, sy eie identiteit bevraagteken. | |
Publisher | AOSIS | |
Date | 2017-08-31 | |
Identifier | 10.4102/lit.v38i1.1371 | |
Source | Literator; Vol 38, No 1 (2017); 7 pages Literator; Vol 38, No 1 (2017); 7 pages 2219-8237 0258-2279 | |
Language | eng | |
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