Giorgio Forni, Anomaly and experimentation in Luigi Capuana’s «Profili di donne» In his first collection of short stories published in 1877, Luigi Capuana experimented with a new way of narrating in which the analysis of sentiments interlaces with a philosophy of modern artistic forms inspired by Hegel’s Aesthetics. In assigning the narration to the monologuing voice of a male ego divided between self-illusion and opportunism, between the «poetry» and «prose» of love, Capuana constructs the figure of an inadequate and one-sided narrator that already has the characteristics of what Wayne Booth calls the «unreliable narrator». And it is the search for a «genuine» and «immediate» representation that heralds the great season of Verismo.
Anomalia e sperimentazione nei «Profili di donne» di Luigi Capuana
FORNI, Giorgio
2016-01-01
Abstract
Giorgio Forni, Anomaly and experimentation in Luigi Capuana’s «Profili di donne» In his first collection of short stories published in 1877, Luigi Capuana experimented with a new way of narrating in which the analysis of sentiments interlaces with a philosophy of modern artistic forms inspired by Hegel’s Aesthetics. In assigning the narration to the monologuing voice of a male ego divided between self-illusion and opportunism, between the «poetry» and «prose» of love, Capuana constructs the figure of an inadequate and one-sided narrator that already has the characteristics of what Wayne Booth calls the «unreliable narrator». And it is the search for a «genuine» and «immediate» representation that heralds the great season of Verismo.Pubblicazioni consigliate
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