«La zona del disastro»: stylistic features of loss, patterns of desire and architecture of tale in Gherardo Bortolotti's ‘Romanzetto estivo’

Abstract

The paper shed lights on the thematic and stylistic charachteristics of Gherardo Bortolotti’s Romanzetto estivo. Adopting the theoretical framework of trauma studies and the methodologies of formal analysis, the essay describes lexical and semantic choices and rhetorical strategies, in order to demonstrate that Romanzetto estivo can be seen a complex and sophisticated narrative-descriptive work on the elaboration of emotional traumas.