In a message dated 12/12/2015 8:01:08 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
lawrencehelm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx quotes from Parks's review of Leopardi's
"Zibaldone"
(NYROB): "So many of [Leopardi's] intuitions look forward to the work of
future philosopher, to absurdism and existentialism; again and again the
voices
of Nietzsche, Dostoevsky, Wittgenstein, Gadda, Beckett, Bernard, Cioran,
and many others see to murmur on the page."
And one might add Borges.
Leopardi is a modern, Borges is a post-modern. However, it has been
alleged that "rhizomatic" (that's lit.crit. jargon, sorry) elements in
Leopardi’s
"Zibaldone", such as the phenomenology of memory, also serve as the basis
for some passages in Borges’s stuff like his short story "Funes", as this
relates to Leopardi’s meditations on the "colpo d’occhio" as philosophical
knowledge and on the imaginative value associated with the figure of the
bird in his production.
In the case of Borges, the two different voices in the "Funes", that of the
narrator-author and that of Funes may be allege to correspond to the
opposition between two different models of reality: one based on the
"analysis"
synchronic and contiguous details; another requiring a diachronic
"synthesis".
It may be alleged that, in "Zibaldone", this very same dialectic underlies
a theoretical understanding of Leopardi's poetical (yet speculative)
meditation on the flight of birds.
Cheers,
Speranza
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