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    "pk": 40547,
    "title": "From \nKohelet/Ecclesiastes\n to \nMontedidio\n: The Rest of the Story",
    "subtitle": null,
    "abstract": "Erri De Luca's literal translation and interpretation of the Book of Ecclesiastes/Kohelet reveals unique characteristics that shed light on this unusual author's opus in general and on the 2001 novel \nMontedidio\n in particular. The concept of \"hevel\" and its translation as \"spreco\" (waste) morphs in the pages of \nMontedidio\n into a discourse on the nature of writing and on language. The city of Naples, like Jerusalem \"a city of blood\", becomes a sacred vessel of sorts, which at its shattering on New Year's Eve gives birth to the book \nMontedidio\n as a leftover for the reader to use lest it should turn into \"spreco.\" The writing of \nMontedidio\n is developed along horizontal and vertical coordinates at the intersection of which the novel takes shape.  Its reading is informed mostly by Walter Benjamin, including the notion of \"pure language.\" De Luca's voice can best be heard among those that conditioned what Yuri Slezkine called \"the Jewish century.\"",
    "language": "en",
    "license": {
        "name": "Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial  4.0",
        "short_name": "CC BY-NC 4.0",
        "text": "Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\n\nNonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.\n\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.",
        "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0"
    },
    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "Erri De Luca"
        },
        {
            "word": "Montedidio"
        },
        {
            "word": "translation"
        },
        {
            "word": "Naples"
        },
        {
            "word": "Ecclesiastes"
        },
        {
            "word": "Contemporary Italian Fiction"
        }
    ],
    "section": "The Sacred and Literature",
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    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9f79t8qg",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Myriam",
            "middle_name": "Swennen",
            "last_name": "Ruthenberg",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Florida Atlantic University",
            "department": "None"
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": "2014-06-09T00:07:58+02:00",
    "date_accepted": "2014-06-09T00:07:58+02:00",
    "date_published": "2015-07-30T09:00:00+02:00",
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