Franchir la nuit : Henri Bosco, Federico Fellini et Fortunato Seminara

Abstract

Passing through the night : Henri Bosco, Federico Fellini and Fortunato Seminara The author of this article has chosen to speak of the night in the work of two writers (H. Bosco and the Italian F. Seminara) and a film maker (F. Fellini). The aim is to show for each of them, the significance of "passing through the night". With Bosco, whose last, unfinished novel we analyse (Une ombre, in which he coined the phrase "passing through the night"), we experience the night as another life, a life of dreams and mysterious worlds. In the romantic novel by F. Seminara, on the other hand, night is a terrifying (and sometimes fatal) ordeal through which we have to pass and is often associated with madness and the symbolism of the moon. The night in the cinema world of Fellini alone helps people to blossom out and to become reconciled with the city.