| RIVISTA DI STUDI ITALIANI | |
| Anno VIII , n° 1, Giugno 1990 ( Contributi ) | pag. 70-87 |
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THE MOTIF OF ENTRAPMENT IN ELSA MORANTE'S L'ISOLA DI ARTURO AND DACIA MARAINI'S L'ETÀ DEL MALESSERE |
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| TONIA CATERINA RIVIELLO | |
| Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, California |
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Emotional entrapment has many examples in literature. The adolescent and young adult are perhaps two of its most conspicuous or pitiable victims. The modern audience is well accustomed to indifference and neglect as pernicious agents in a young life and intentional authorial obscurity as an indicator of uncertainty in the minds of certain literary characters. In Elsa Morante's L'isola di Arturo (Torino: Einaudi, 1980) and Dacia Maraini's L'età del malessere (Torino: Einaudi, 1963), for example, one can see that much of the tension contained in these two works lies in the young protagonists' approach to consciousness regarding a life-long dilemma. [...] |
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