1st Edition
Identity and Its Discontents A Snapshot of Contemporaneity
Chapter 1. Is it Possible to be Authentic? A Fictional Answer Chapter 2. The Bad Faith of the Nonexistent Knight: If Sartre Reads Calvino Chapter 3. The Sound of Silence Chapter 4. Identity: A Chamber of Torture Chapter 5. Something Else About Love and Literature Chapter 6. The School of Athens before Fahrenheit 451: All That Remains Chapter 7. Words Fail Us: The Crisis of The Language Chapter 8. An Additional Note
Biography
Alberto Castelli is a writer and a humanities professor at Hainan University, China. Chiefly, he is engaged with Modernism, Postmodern dynamics, and Cross-Cultural Studies. He is the author of “Perspectives on Asia: is China kitsch?” (2021) and “Bipolarism in the Nineteenth Century Novel” (2023). Most recently, his publications include Eros and Thanatos. Love Across Civilizations (2023) and Love, Beauty or Morality (2024).
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