Soprannaturale e letteratura

Discussione delle teorizzazioni di Francesco Orlando sul soprannaturale letterario

The essay tackles the issue of the supernatural in literature as sketched by Francesco Orlando in his recently published posthumous study Il soprannaturale letterario. Storia, logica e forme. Orlando’s proposal of reformulation and categorization of the theme – which is extremely innovative and exemplified by a range of texts belonging to an ample chronological span – is discussed in relation to the theoretical tenets of the author of Per una teoria freudiana della letteratura and takes into account the previous attempts of theorisation of the supernatural.