Parole Rubate (Dec 2010)
L'inganno della monade perfetta. Autoreferenzialità e intertestualità in Luigi Malerba I
Abstract
Rarely, critical readings of Luigi Malerba’s work have considered the question of the sources or, more generally, of intertextuality, confirming instead the image of a self-referential author, due especially to his remarkable originality within the narrative survey of late twentieth century. This essay aims to suggest that this self-referentiality should be verified and, at least, partly reconsidered. In fact, whereas on the one hand, Malerba refers mostly to himself, repeating his own themes, scenes, characters, and language, on the other hand, in his works it is possible to find out a wide network of documentary sources, and accurate and provable references to works of other authors, such as Svevo and Pirandello or Borges and Marquez. Also, it is possible to suppose that the author’s will to conceal his models is suitable to a precise poetic and answers to a precise idea of the novel function as well.
