Lo stile dell’anima

Authors

  • Concetta Maria Pagliuca Università degli Studi di Napoli “Federico II”

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.13133/2239-1983/13989

Abstract

The article is intended to show the gap between two characters’ interior life in Mastro-don Gesualdo. Giovanni Verga and Guido Mazzoni agree that Gesualdo’s subjectivity is never rendered in the novel while Isabella’s “soul” is revealed through a monologue/soliloquy. Their theses are disproved on the basis of textual evidence: on one hand, the father is represented thinking, on the other hand, his daughter hardly ever speaks with herself. Subjectivity is not conveyed by a specific technique but by a particular style that is related to a certain sensibility and corresponds to a social class.

Published

2017-09-24

How to Cite

Pagliuca, C. M. (2017). Lo stile dell’anima. Status Quaestionis, (12). https://doi.org/10.13133/2239-1983/13989