Tra le rovine del futuro. Sulle atmosfere estreme di Christoph Ransmayr

Aim of this paper is to focus the literary work of the Austrian writer Christoph Ransmayr (1954) to highlight – within his novel Die Schrecken des Eises und der Finsternis (The Terrors of Ice and Darkness), and his text Strahlender Untergang – the complaint strand of natural and human disasters. My contribute intends also pointing to other authors (Dupuy, Rosei), and reporting the extreme climatic transformation (the “big cold” and the “big hot”) to the threatening encroachment of the man and the danger of his action. According to Ransmayr, the study of the corrupted landscape and of the climate translates in a study of man, and his “superhuman-too human” ability to checkmate himself.