Between Myth and Mythology: The Multiple Ulysses in Cesare Pavese's <i>La luna e i falò</i>
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Abstract
The following article offers an intertextual and paradigmatic reading of the omnipresent figure of Ulysses in Cesare Pavese's final novel, La luna e i falò. By minutely regrouping as a collage the different facets of Ulysses/Odysseus as represented in literature — namely Homer's Odysseus, Dante's Ulysses and Joyce's Leopold Bloom — Pavese reconstitutes an impossible nostos or return home for his orphaned protagonist Anguilla, a character whose actions take on further meaning when analyzed alongside his paradigmatic counterparts. I argue that only once these intertexts are reconstituted and a vertical reading expounded, may the reader comprehend the minute textual intricacies of La luna e i falò and the manner in which Pavese — whose lurking autobiographical presence within the novel is also brought to light by intertextuality — aesthetically makes sense of a specific socio-political climate in which myth and mythology stand in contradistinction to the quotidian.
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Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.007 | 0.035 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.007 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.005 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".