"But what have I done with my life?" Fragmentation and Expansion of Time in the Family Novel from Virginia Woolf's "To the LIghthouse" to Nicola Lagioia's "La ferocia"

Lucamante Stefania

2021-01-01

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Abstract

This essay defines the temporality axis determined by the hierarchy of the family places in which the sense of time subtracts itself to the conventional linearity and adopts a fragmented reconfiguration of the duration of the existence of each family member as the time that has now become a subjective perception. Examples are drawn from works by Marcel Proust, Elsa Morante, Virginia Woolf and Nicola Lagioia.