Archaic Rituality and the Modern Novel: The Relic of the Chorus in Horcynus Orca
This essay employs Ernesto de Martino’s concept of the “relic” to analyze Stefano D’Arrigo’s novel Horcynus Orca (1975), arguing that by revitalizing archaic narrative forms the novel challenges modern cultural structures and creates new meaning in the face of a perceived “end of the world.” After examining the intelle...