Behind the mask. Truth in semiotics
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https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.1980-4016.esse.2022.194353Keywords:
Veridition, Lie, Mask, Schnitzler, SemioticsAbstract
The article proposes a reflection, conducted with the tools of semiotics, on truth and its misrepresentations (masks, secrets), through the analysis of a story: Double Dream (Traumnovelle, 1926) by Arthur Schnitzler. After an excursus on some conceptions of truth, derived both from philosophical discourse and from everyday practice, the textual analysis is aimed at showing how discursive processes, as they are staged by the story, present a wide interweaving of different "truthful" practices, such as ascertainment, confession, investigation, testing, unmasking, simulation and dissimulation. Practices that are in turn related to different conceptions and valorizations of truth. Finally, the article focuses on the role of the "mask", in the processes of thematization and actoralization, as a means of concealment and revelation.
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