Abstrakt: | Giuseppe Culicchia’s novel is an example of a literary polemic between the society
and the individual who is, at least to a certain extent, a rebel. On the one hand, in Culicchia’s
story, this might denote a person who stands up for their own personal opinions regardless of
what anyone else says. On the other hand, however, a rebel may actually stand up against what is
right, and may lose himself in drug and alcohol abuse. All in all, the novel focuses on being an
individual and refusing to follow the crowd that forces you to think the same way they do even
if it means becoming an outcast to the society. The novel is also a polemic, and polemics are not
only a vehicle for the exchange of opinions, cultures, knowledge and ideas, but they also are the
most significant sign of our times. |