Paris, ‘n’est-ce que ça?’: Desire and Ordinary Routines in an Andrea Inglese’s Novel
Abstract
Parigi è un desiderio presents the struggle of a character who contends his own demon, which becomes real in the central figure of the Ville Lumière. The struggle will eventually turn out to be a disappointment. Ordinary routines themselves, even in Paris, become the stage on which one can try to shatter delusions at least partially, when work becomes frustration and passion turns into routine. I have thus tried to point out in this book the most recent branch in a long series of disappointments that permeates modern literature, as well as the similarity between the punk character and the Proustian dandy.
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