Finnegans wrote:
> no one asked me, but I think if you want to discuss pseudonymous lit
> feel free to do so. How 'bout Pessoa? However, I'm on the side of those
less
> interested in encountering in this list's space a pseudodo's spoutings.
> I say "Stand & deliver." Or, like Rukeyser, "No more masks."
> Finnegan
>
<< Why the desire to denigrate pseudonymous literature? Some of the
greatest
> of all c
ontributions to the understanding of our human condition have
> appeared under assumed names. >>
>
> Antonio,
> no one asked me, but I think if you want to discuss pseudonymous lit
> feel free to do so. How 'bout Pessoa? However, I'm on the side of those
less
> interested in encountering in this list's space a pseudodo's spoutings.
> I say "Stand & deliver." Or, like Rukeyser, "No more masks."
> Finnegan
>
My dearest Finnegan,
you quote Pessoa and I'll quote Pirandello.
It is a good point, yours, about dropping the masks. In Italian literary
culture, though, as you probably know better than me, the problematic of the
"mask" as been overcome by Pirandello by the simpler statements that " we
are our masks", we are actually IDs which cultivate the illusion to possess
Egos. When the masks fall, you find nothing there to fight for. An
emptiness. Pirandello's theory is that we are ultimately what appears in the
form of a mask and hide nothing but our own void.
The world- as well as the living entities which dwell in it - become not
merely incomprehensible but unknowable. Pirandello started to uses various
devices of "narrative" personas to prove this existential vacuum which
cannot sustain life.
(Uno, nessuno, centomila - Il Fu Mattia Pascal). There is no essential
"self" to function as a guide. All illusions of having a valuable "identity"
fail to be creditable.
You know that Pirandello's style was mainly based on a deliberated alienated
mock-naive self, sporting around a mock-naive language well suited to
questioning philosophical existential assumptions (Hundred thousand
identities which are all partial version of the supposed self - i.e. our
supposed "identities"
This in respect of EP, who has left the list a long time ago and, no matter
how informed she might be about the present thread, she is not minding at
all to be quoted or spoken about.
God save anonymity and all the people able to free themselves from the cult
of their identities: "Uno, nessuno, centomila" ( One, no one, one thousand).
Who has ears to understand, I am sure, will understand.
By please, keep posting , since Psuedo identities are most relevant to this
issue.
Yours Antonio Gonzales Y Perez
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