It is in the Introduction to the first edition of the novel Mater dolorosa (1882) that Gerolamo Rovetta – who moved to the dynamic fin de siècle Milan – sets out the theoretical assumptions of his new aesthetic practice: “I am not a novelist, [...] I am a chronicler”. Moving from a precise analysis of the novel Mater dolorosa (1882), we intend to shed light on the most significant, and yet poorly investigated, aspects of Gerolamo Rovetta’s veritable writing. Around the gray everyday life of the protagonist, the work opens up a glimpse of a prosaic, corrupt, ‘practical’ society: a scenario that induces to detect consonance relations with the Italian and European literature of the time.
«Non sono un romanziere, […] sono un cronista». La poetica di Gerolamo Rovetta in ‘Mater dolorosa’
Lavopa Rosanna
2018-01-01
Abstract
It is in the Introduction to the first edition of the novel Mater dolorosa (1882) that Gerolamo Rovetta – who moved to the dynamic fin de siècle Milan – sets out the theoretical assumptions of his new aesthetic practice: “I am not a novelist, [...] I am a chronicler”. Moving from a precise analysis of the novel Mater dolorosa (1882), we intend to shed light on the most significant, and yet poorly investigated, aspects of Gerolamo Rovetta’s veritable writing. Around the gray everyday life of the protagonist, the work opens up a glimpse of a prosaic, corrupt, ‘practical’ society: a scenario that induces to detect consonance relations with the Italian and European literature of the time.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
