La tendenziosità del gioco linguistico nel componimento leviano Primo Atlante

Abstract

Starting from the analysis of verbal and onomastic games sequences on which is built Primo Atlante, a Primo Levi’s composition written in 1980 and later merged into the poetic collection of 1984, At uncertain hour, the paper, probing the more properly figurative outcomes of these linguistic devices intend to question the dynamics of a style, such as the Levian one, programmatically predisposed to formal clarity and to the argumentative intelligibility to detect semantic densities not always immediately explicit. In this sense, a text in many ways eccentric in Levi's production, provides a heuristically useful trace to reread its work in the light of a potential «tendentiousness» that not only, as suggested by the Francesco Orlando’s Freudian lesson, ‘invents’ «compromise formations», but creates «classes» (as another important Freudian lesson, the Ignacio Matte Blanco’s one, suggests) which symmetrize precisely where the language strives to identify with the greatest precision. Levi's literary production, with particularly regard to the poetic works, shows, on the recurrence of paradigmatic constants structured by the etymological probe, a singular ability, together, to divide up and ‘infinitize’, thus giving voice and representation to the human mind «bi-modal» functioning. Then, the contribution proceeds to identify, describe and clarify the dynamics of the composition figurative signification through transversal drillings of the Levian work and the solicitation of its «self-textual» system, attempting to highlight the profound «unity» of its perceptive dimension.