LE RELAZIONI TEMPORALI TRA STORIA E RACCONTO NELLA MALORA DI BEPPE FENOGLIO
TEMPORAL RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN HISTORY AND TALE IN THE MALORA OF BEPPE FENOGLIO

Summary/Abstract: It is a short novel where Fenoglio leaves us many traces ascribable to oral culture, where he gives us an important version of the anthropological content of the peasant world. This literary text can function as a historical memory of the Langhe and give us a lesson in critical awareness. After the fortunate debut of the twenty-three days of the city of Alba (1952) La malora is the second narrative proof. The protagonist of the novel is Agostino, a young farmer who was orphaned by his father. The action is located around the thirties, in a peasant society plagued by poverty and a strong tension of social relations. We are in the Alta Langa, a rugged land, where the field and the lawn are torn from the wood piece by piece. Agostino tells his stories in the first person. The representation of the rural universe, accomplished from within, makes the pages of the novel taste like a well-defined humanity, a very precise environmental context.

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