Padri incapaci nella letteratura italiana femminile (Cardella, Ginzburg)
Incapable Fathers In Italian Literature by Women (Cardella, Ginzburg)
Author(s): Anna NatkańskaSubject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Philology, Theory of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: authority; family; parent-child relationships; Italian literature
Summary/Abstract: The father figure in twentieth-century novels usually appears only as a part ofthe family. It is rare for a father to become the main protagonist of the book; he is frequentlypresented as an “addition” to the mother. Rightly or not, the father figure is, however, a symbol of authority and power in the family, hence writers have a tendency to present the parent-child relationships as difficult, bitter, and very, very complex. The situation is not much different in modern Italian literature, in which relationships with fathers during childhood are often a starting point for adult problems. In this article, I try to analyze this phenomenon on the basis of two novels written after 1950: Caro Michele by Natalia Ginzburg and Volevo i pantaloni by Lara Cardella.
Journal: Romanica Silesiana
- Issue Year: 2017
- Issue No: 12
- Page Range: 121-128
- Page Count: 8
- Language: Spanish