Vergin veristički prikaz likova u romanu Obitelj Malavoglia
The Veristic Representation of Characters in Verga’s “I Malavoglia”

Summary/Abstract: According to Verga, the artistic representation needs to possess the effect of having been, it has to deliver to the story the footprint of a thing that had really happened. In order to do this, it has to report human documents. But it is not enough for the facts that are being told to be real and documented. They have to be told in the way that the reader is put face to face with the bare fact, so that he does not have the impression that he is seeing it through the author’s lens. For this reason the author has to be eclipsed, which means that he cannot be present in the narrated with his subjective reactions, his reflections, his explanations, like in traditional fiction. The author has to be in his characters’ skin, see the things with their eyes and announce them with their words. In this way his hand will remain absolutely invisible in the work, and the work will seem to be made by itself, be a spontaneous phenomenon, like a natural fact, without having any contact point with its author. The reader will feel that he is not reading a story of facts, but that he is assisting to the facts that are happening in front of his eyes. For this reason the reader has to be put in the middle of happenings, without having someone to explain the background and to build a profile of characters, their personality and their story. These are the proceedings that Verga used in his masterpiece “I Malavoglia”.

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