A Collège de France - CNED coproduction
Abstract
The lecture is devoted to an analysis of the relationship between nihilism - i.e. the conception of the absence of all foundation and the end of values proclaimed by Nietzsche - and the radical transformation taking place in the European novel between the mid-19th century and the twenties and thirties of the following century. The central theme of the lecture - analyzed both in general terms and through the work of various authors from different literatures - is therefore the progressive dissolution of the sense of unity of the world, of life and of the individual subject itself. It's a process that is progressively affecting the most varied aspects and fields, gradually disintegrating the great philosophical systems that had imposed a unity on reality to make it a totality, the great visions of the world, language, the identity of the individual..
