Confession or Bad Faith? “La scuola cattolica” by Edoardo Albinati

DOI: https://doi.org/10.6093/sigma.v0i6.9483
Keywords: La scuola cattolica, confession, Blaise Pascal, gender stereotypes

Abstract

The essay investigates the relationship between religion and violence in the work of Edoardo Albinati, La scuola cattolica published in 2016 and winner of the Strega Prize. The novel, halfway between autofiction and novel-essay, tells the story of the crime of Circeo (1975). It describes in particular the violence that a generation of men committed during the Seventies. The author of the essay shows how the narrator retraces the stages of his Catholic education and gender stereotypes, to which he had been educated by the private school of San Leone Magno. In conclusion, he tries to highlight the ways in which the protagonist deconstructs and questions the moral violence linked to gender stereotypes.

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Author Biography

Riccardo Gasperina Geroni, Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna

Riccardo Gasperina Geroni is researcher at the University of Bologna. His interest lies in the relationship among twentieth-century Italian literature, anthropology, and psychoanalysis. Recently, he has published articles on several international journals, such as Cuadernos de Filología Italiana, The Italianist, Esperienze Letterarie and Arabeschi. His first book, Il Custode della Soglia. Il Sacro e le Forme nell’Opera di Carlo Levi, published in 2018, won the 21st edition of the Carlo Levi Prize. He also edited the new edition of Quaderno a Cancelli, published by Einaudi in 2020.

Published
2022-11-28
How to Cite
Gasperina GeroniR. (2022). Confession or Bad Faith? “La scuola cattolica” by Edoardo Albinati. SigMa - Rivista Di Letterature Comparate, Teatro E Arti Dello Spettacolo, (6), 10-25. https://doi.org/10.6093/sigma.v0i6.9483
Issue
No 6 (2022): Like a Prayer. Forms of the Religiousness and the Sacred in Contemporary Writings and Arts (1990-2020)
Section
Sezione monografica

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