ABSTRACT

This article explores an idea of ‘disaster’ (‘sciagura’) that figures prominently in Leopardi’s early Canzoni (1818–22). While English versions have generally rendered this word as ‘unhappiness’, ‘woes’, ‘ills’ etc., the emphasis on lyric melancholy misses Leopardi’s sense of a universal ‘calamity’ that is closely bound up with the acquisition of language and with humanity’s increasing separation from nature. The article finds suggestive analogies between Leopardi’s handling of this nexus of ideas and Maurice Blanchot’s much later concept of disaster which is similarly geared to a perception of language as something ‘neutral’ and ‘external’. The article goes on to examine the elevated style and ‘unnatural’ syntax of the Canzoni as a means by which Leopardi cultivates his own version of an impersonal sublime.

摘要

这篇文章探讨了“灾难”(“sciagura”) 的概念，该概念在 Leopardi 的早期Canzoni (1818–22) 中占有重要地位。虽然英文版本通常将这个词译为“不快乐”、“不幸”、“疾病”等，但对抒情忧郁的强调忽略了莱奥帕尔迪对普遍“灾难”的感觉，这种灾难与语言的习得和人类的生活密切相关。与自然越来越分离。这篇文章在 Leopardi 对这种思想联系的处理与 Maurice Blanchot 晚得多的灾难概念之间找到了暗示性的类比，后者同样适用于将语言感知为“中性”和“外部”的东西。这篇文章继续研究了 Canzoni 的高雅风格和“不自然”语法作为 Leopardi 培养他自己版本的非个人崇高的一种方式。