Rifiutare il lavoro come forma di resistenza

Ipotesi di una sconfitta di Giorgio Falco e Robledo di Daniele Zito

Abstract

 This article examines the relationship between contemporary Italian fiction and the world of labour, understood as symptomatic of broader political and social tensions. Drawing on Giorgio Falco’s Ipotesi di una sconfitta (2017) and Daniele Zito’s Robledo (2017), it argues that both authors anticipate and deploy quitting as a device to contest post-Fordist labour dynamics and current configurations of power. Furthermore, it shows how both texts, rather than adhering to traditional models of political engagement, develop bottom-up strategies of literary agency that operate on individual reader consciousness, foregrounding the self as a site of dissent in a post-ideological era. The analysis also addresses the formal strategies through which these novels combine documentary realism, irony, and metafictional devices in order to respond to the epistemological instabilities of the post-truth condition.