La metamorfosi del personaggio nei romanzi neostorici di Roberto Pazzi

Abstract

This is the first of three essays on Roberto Pazzi's narrative. A second article will focus on Vangelo di Giuda, and a final article will examine the author's non-historical narratives. This essay examines the novels which portray historical themes, from ancient Rome (La stanza sull'acqua) to the Russian
Revolution (Cercando l'Imperatore), in order to show how the author attempts to find a transcendental value in reality. Such a revelation is only possible
through art, which, by manipulating characters and events, enables them to move from being contingent to being permanent, granting them a presence
based on mythical parameters. There ensues a symbolic narrative construction, given both by the intellectual rhythm of the narrative, based on a utopic return to myth, and by the psychoanalytic inquiry and the spatio-temporal determinants, which in turn become metaphors for a-temporal existential moments.

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