“Rimarrà solo, attorno, un lieve odore di bruciato”: la distruzione dell’esperienza in Quaderno proibito di Alba de Céspedes

Abstract

In this essay, using Agamben work on The destruction of experience as a frame, I analyse the role that the acquisition of life experience plays in one of the main works of Alba de Cespedes, Quaderno proibito. I will show how the protagonist’s point of view works as a bridge between traditional experience, which became unattainable in contemporary societies, and a modern one, and I will show how the fascination that the book still has on readers is mainly related to the description of the process of destruction of the traditional form of experience.