TY - JOUR AU - Diani, Luca PY - 2022/06/28 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Il romanzo circadiano. Il caso di Cosmopolis di Don DeLillo JF - Status Quaestionis JA - SQ VL - IS - 22 SE - Miscellaneous articles DO - 10.13133/2239-1983/18084 UR - https://rosa.uniroma1.it/rosa03/status_quaestionis/article/view/18084 SP - AB - <div class="page" title="Page 1"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p>This contribution intends to give a first theorization of circadian novel, which story is set in a single day, by adopting David Harvey’s concept of ‘time-space compression’ and Fre- dric Jameson’s literary theory of the political unconscious, to find a correlation between formal structure of these novels and historical context. Then, the essay focuses on a parti- cular twenty-first century circadian novel, Don DeLillo’s Cosmopolis, as the summary of an experimental narrative tradition, in order to offer a concrete analysis of the inner workings&nbsp;of one-day novels.</p></div></div></div> ER -