타부키의 ‘데자쏘세구(desassossego)’ 연구: ‘내적 불안(inquietudine)’과 비교하여

Abstract

In Tabucchi’s texts, inquietudine refers to feelings, emotions, or sentiments that reflect the identity of an era, as well as political and social implications; however, it has a distinct meaning in Tabucchi’s philosophy. In other words, Tabucchi deals with a more subtle version of the universal theme of ‘anxiety’ in modern literature. Tabucchi elaborates on this concept by distinguishing it from inquietudine, desassossego, nostalgia, and saudade. This paper focuses on the comparison of desassossego with other terms. Desassossego and inquietudine arose from the anxiety brought on by the arrival of modernity. Whereas Pessoa’s pseudonym Soares linked anxiety to the era, Tabucchi gave anxiety flesh, and inquietudine revealed the universal anxiety of modern man. Tabucchi views the two inflection points separating desassossego and inquietudine as the point at which the anxiety of not being able to exist transforms into the dread that humanity may become extinct, and the point at which Freud’s concept of anxiety is systematized. While desassossego and inquietudine share a common thread of incapacity and otherness, they are manifested in different ways: desassossego deconstructs the notion of the subject and removes the direction of power, whereas inquietudine redefines boundaries and extends them to infinity, a state of alienation into which everything slips, a state of constant anxiety. In other words, inquietudine is a concept in Tabucchi’s text that simultaneously entails and retrogresses notions of simultaneity, transcendence, and non-temporality that connect earlier and later generations. Tabucchi emphasizes the function of literature and the author in perpetuating this inquietudine.