Il romanzo psicologico La madre di Eva di Silvia Ferreri (2017): interferenze di genere e contrasti tra vita familiare reale e ideale conducono a una nuova Genesi
Silvia Ferreri’s Psychological Novel La madre di Eva (2017): Genre-Interferences and Contrasts between Real and Ideal Family Life Lead to a New Genesis

Summary/Abstract: Silvia Ferreri’s novel La madre di Eva [Eva’s mother], published in L’Aquila in 2017, is an artistic work which finds itself in between the psychological novel and the autobiography-confession, and deals with reflections and thoughts of a mother whose daughter, Eva, presents a gender dysphoria, and therefore decides to have a surgery in order to change gender. It is not just a gender novel, as the action takes place because of Eva’s decision, but the author shows the reader rather feelings and thoughts of the mother who, through a stream of consciousness, looks through her remainders and past decisions the reason of Eva’s so-called-sickness. The mother asks herself about her imperfection, as a mother who gave birth to an incomplete, wrong, creation. The novel presents interesting parallelisms with the Holy Bible: thus, the two characters of Eva and the mother, and their bound, need to be understood as mythical-archetypical characters, representing the relationship between creator and creature, divinity and human being, between God and the first man (and the first woman). The mother takes on herself the suffering of all the mothers of the world, while Eva suffers within a body not her own. The martyrdom and the suffering of the two main characters, Eva and the mother, will lead to overcome the sense of imperfection they feature, thus realizing a new, modern Genesis.

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