L’epifania delle Adelaidi complici. Precarietà, musicalità e plurilinguismo in Nati complici (1999) e Le Adelaidi (2007) di Anna Felder

Abstract

The work of Anna Felder challenges boundaries and categorisations. Her fictions are extremely short, their plots are minimal, characterized by opacity and strangeness, despite the apparent everydayness of their settings and elements. Felder’s language is so musical to make her narratives prose poems, and this musicality is further enhanced by a multilingualism that goes even beyond Swiss borders. Using the concept of epiphany as my focus, my contribution analyses these structures in the novel Le Adelaidi and the short stories of Nati complici. Thus, Anna Felder emerges as an author taking an original place in European literary modernity, between Joyce, Proust, Baudelaire and Montale, adapting modernism’s techniques and theorems to a Swiss context.