La ferita e la magia dell’impossibile. Baudelaire, Proust e la tradizione dell’'adynaton' astronomico/erotico
The essay reconstructs the ancient poetic tradition of astronomical 'adynata', where the observation of the sky becomes expression of erotic suffering. After a short excursus on this kind of 'adynata' from ancient Greek and Latin poetry to the 17th century, the essay focuses on two modern authors who seem to revive this tradition: Baudelaire and Proust. Baudelaire in his “poèmes en prose” (Spleen de Paris) refers to two “impossible” events: the black sun and the moon pulled out of the sky by the magic art of the Thessalian witches.