In Guiseppe Carbone’s Personnr. 7852<\/i> (7852 My Name<\/i>) the number symbolizes the human name that is entered into a computer mainframe for purposes of residency and citizenship. Further, the work evinces the human drama unfolding in the industrialized world where an individual’s personality is crushed by everyday mechanical labor. In this capacity, human values have ceased to exist and with them real human contact. Relationships between men and women becomes are drowned in daily routine resulting in indifference.The male protagonist rebels against the drudgery of his mechanized circumstances by discovering in his imagination a different world, a free and ideal one. He reaches out for human contact from this new found place but is ignored by the society he lives in, becomes lonely and retreats into the refuge of his imagination. Along and struggling to adapt the man cannot, even after several attempts, free himself from the invisible chains that bind him to the mechanical system surrounding him. In desperation he considers suicide.<\/p>\n
In the end, his ideal world helps him to adapt and he manages to find a new place for himself. For a brief moment, he manages to live fully in this dream world. When his dream inevitably dissolves, he becomes once again the mechanical man. The man’s dream could be considered a quest, a means to defeat the loneliness and isolation of the industrialized world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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