La scrittura di Cettina atoli Ajossa tra passioni tardoromantiche e presentimenti decadenti

Abstract

The aim of this article is to bring to the attention of the scholars the writings of Cettina Natoli Ajossa (1867-1913), Sicilian noblewoman, who published several novels in which the Romantic paradigm is questioned and the crisis of the Nineteenth-Century world is highlighted. Particularly relevant the auto-biographical memoir of Messina earthquake: it focuses upon the bitter conflict between classes, givingus the meaning of the end of an era.

Keywords

• romanticism in crisis
• cettina natoli ajossa
• sicilian women writers