‘Menzogna romantica’ e ‘sortilegio romanzesco’
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abstract
This contribution attempts to match the dimensions of the ‘menzogna and sortilegio’ of Elsa Morante’s novel, and above all its construction in relation to the novel of the bourgeois epic of the previous century, those of the ‘mensonge romantique’ and ‘verité romanesque’ of René Girard, and therefore of describe the geometries of mimetic desire that build the plot of this huge debut in European post-war literature.
Keywords: Mimetic desire • Elsa Morante • Menzogna e sortilegio • René Girard