The paper is focused on two works created with the time gap of
almost two centuries. These are the Discourse on the Method
(1637) by Rene Descartes (1596–1660) and the Zibaldone (1817–
1832) by Giacomo Leopardi (1798–1837). Descartes invites
readers to ask him questions, to which he can later respond on
the pages of the Discourse. Leopardi does not involve anyone in
the conversation, but he talks with himself and with the authors
of the past and the present, hereby creating a new type of letter
with a higher degree of dialogism in his fragments.
Keywords: Descartes, Leopardi, Discourse on the Method, Zibaldone, dialogue, fragment
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