THREAD AND PRINTS - Ginzburg, Carlo Fondo de Cultura Economica
Synopsis
Jewish Menorca and Brazilian cannibals, shamans and antique, medieval romances, the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, photography and death, Voltaire, Stendhal, Flaubert, Auerbach, Kracauer, Montaigne: Carlo Ginzburg draws on all this and much more to explore the multiple relationships between historical truth, fiction and falsehood. What holds together the essays in this book is the relationship between the wire-to the narrative, as Theseus, helps us to orient ourselves in the labyrinth of reality, and footprints.
against the tendency of postmodern skepticism to blur the line between narrative fiction and historical narratives, the author addresses this relationship as a dispute over the representation of reality, a fact conflict challenges, reciprocal borrowing and hybridizations. The method you choose is to read the texts to reveal the evidence against involuntary, those areas that are opaque to all text leaves traces behind it. Reality, imagination and forgery oppositional, intersect, they feed each other in every witness examined.
in the thread and the footprints, Carlo Ginzburg explores some of the ways in which over two and a half millennia intertwined countered and fiction, truth and fiction that pretends to be real. In this triad, the true is a point of arrival, not a starting point, and its changing relationship rests on historical knowledge. "Historians (and, in a different way, poets) made by trade stuff of everyone's life: unraveling the fabric of truth, falsehood and fiction that is the fabric of our being in the world. "
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