La disdetta – quando il sipario cala sull’eternità. Un’analisi metaletteraria

Abstract

This article reflects on the metaphorical and meta-literary structures of La disdetta (1974). In particular, it shows that from the very first pages, the novel investigates the boundaries between literature and reality and undermines the conventional limits between different characters, between narrator and characters and between the world of fiction and reality. Stylistic tools used systematically are daring metaphors and synaesthesia, linking distant spheres of reality, and the anthropomorphisation of animals, plants and inanimate objects. The article also shows how the novel reveals on a metaliterary level that literature can only react to the threat of the indistinct with a focus ideally aimed at defining the individuality of each character, each living being and each object.