Space and plot in ‘Senilità’

  • Mario Lavagetto Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna
DOI: https://doi.org/10.6093/sigma.v0i7.10527
Keywords: Italo Svevo, Senilità, narrative space, home, psychoanalytic reading

Abstract

Starting from the codification of the narrative space developed by Vladimir Nabokov, in turn inspired by Zola’s novels, the essay intends to investigate the typological functions of the 'house' in Svevo's masterpiece, Senilità, with a special attention to the processes (of disturbance, displacement or psychic symmetry) that the domestic space activates alternately in the characters of Angelina and Emilio.

This contribution was published in the book Le configurazioni dello spazio nel romanzo del ’900, edited by Paolo Amalfitano, Rome, Bulzoni, 1998, pp. 17-32 («I libri dell’Associazione Sigismondo Malatesta. Studi di letteratura comparata e teatro», 11).

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Author Biography

Mario Lavagetto, Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna

Mario Lavagetto (Parma, 1939-2020) taught Literary Theory at the University of Bologna from 1984 to 2001. In 1997, he won the Natalino Sapegno Prize and the Cesare Musatti Prize, and in 2011, the Viareggio Prize. He focused on, among others, Balzac, Boccaccio, Calvino, Federico De Roberto, Edmond de Goncourt, Jules de Goncourt, Marcel Proust, Umberto Saba, Stendhal, and Italo Svevo. Among his publications, notable volumes include: La gallina di Saba (Einaudi 1974, 1989), L’impiegato Schmitz e altri saggi su Svevo (Einaudi 1976, 1986), Quei più modesti romanzi (Garzanti 1979), Freud, la letteratura e altro (Einaudi 1985, 2001), Stanza 43. Un lapsus di Marcel Proust (Einaudi 1991), La cicatrice di Montaigne. Sulla bugia in letteratura (Einaudi 1992, 2002), La macchina dell’errore (Einaudi 1996), Palinsesti freudiani (Bollati Boringhieri 1997), Dovuto a Calvino (Bollati-Boringhieri 2001).

Published
2023-12-15
How to Cite
LavagettoM. (2023). Space and plot in ‘Senilità’. SigMa - Rivista Di Letterature Comparate, Teatro E Arti Dello Spettacolo, (7), 309-322. https://doi.org/10.6093/sigma.v0i7.10527
Issue
No 7 (2023): Escapes and returns. Rewritings of exodus in contemporary arts
Section
Dalla Biblioteca Malatesta

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