This article aims to study the essayistic pages where Meneghello ponders on the novel in the Italian and European context. The main goal is to outline a theory of the novel proposed by Meneghello. The writer’s reflections will be compared to other essays of his time (notably The Sense of an Ending, Neorealism’s Narrative and American Lessons), and with further contemporary essays which study the Italian novel. The aim is to demonstrate that Meneghello’s theory of the novel is strictly related to the relationship between experience and writing, beyond the dichotomic subdivision between fiction and nonfiction. Therefore, a comparative path is drawn that starts with detachment from neorealism, passing through modernism and arriving at a confrontation between neo-modernism and the theory of the rhizome. In doing so, the article analyses differences and affinities with the novelists who Meneghello quotes the most: from Vittorini to Henry James, from Joyce to Calvino.
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Chapter Title
Meneghello e il romanzo in Italia, critica e scrittura
Authors
Mattia Bonasia
Language
Italian
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0565-8.39
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Publication Year
2024
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Book Title
Meneghello 100
Editors
Francesca Caputo, Ernestina Pellegrini, Diego Salvadori, Franca Sinopoli, Luciano Zampese
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Publication Year
2024
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© 2024 Author(s)
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Publisher Name
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0565-8
eISBN (pdf)
979-12-215-0565-8
eISBN (xml)
979-12-215-0566-5
Series Title
Biblioteca di Studi di Filologia Moderna
Series E-ISSN
2420-8361