I labirinti narrativi Di marcella cioni

Abstract

In Marcella Cioni’s narrative, a competitive psychological tension prevails between the limits imposed by official culture and the desire for free and complete expression of the “I”. Her characters are all in search of their own identity and, after having discovered its coordinates, they make desperate attempts to give form to their profound feelings. Her women characters seem more able and more willing to take risks than the men, indeed they sometimes display an extreme, irrational desire for self-affirmation. The male characters are more conditioned by their socio-historical roles and their journeys are more complicated and more intellectual. Cioni’s ambitious narrative project is given germane expression by the intelligent, linguistically and structurally elaborate plots devised by this new Italian writer.