Con grande amore. Alba de Céspedes e il romanzo su Cuba
Con grande amore: Alba de Cespedes and a Novel on Cuba

Summary/Abstract: In her novels, Alba de Cespedes often experiments with different forms of first-person narration. She dedicates the last decades of her life to a work with autobiographic background, in which she talks about her relation with Cuba, her father’s homeland. The work concerned is the novel that should have been entitled Con grande amore. Although unfinished, it is published posthumously in 2011, within the prestigious Meridiani edition of the Mondadori publishing house. The novel is nothing like other novels by the same author, since it represents a kind of memory synthesis, history of the antecedents, as well as the history of the country related to a myth in the authors consciousness. This paper aims at drawing a parallel between invented first-person narration and autobiographic material in the novel. In addition, the paper focuses on the difficulties Alba de Cespedes faces when trying to unify her memories, and to present them to the reader in an acceptable fashion.

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