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Chapter | ‘Menzogna romantica’ e ‘sortilegio romanzesco’

‘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.


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Published Oct. 28, 2020 | Language: it

Keywords Elsa Morante • Mimetic desire • Menzogna e sortilegio • René Girard

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