«Io ero un gatto». Scelte narrative e stilemi de La disdetta

Abstract

The essay illustrates the narratological and stylistic choices in La disdetta (Einaudi, 1974), Anna Felder’s second novel, marked by an amused experimentalism and dominated by the unpredictable movements of a sui generis narrator and protagonist: the house cat. The analysis – attentive to macro-textual dynamics and linguistic facts, even the most minute ones – highlights the anti-novelistic and poetic treatment of the narrative material (a house destined for demolition whose inhabitants live in suspended time), paying particular attention to the disorienting nature and expressive emphasis of a narrative conducted by snapshots and partial representations, in the continuous change of perspective and enunciative planes, and in the varied evocation of dreamlike-surreal scenarios.