This essay focuses on Luca Rastello’s theory of the novel. First, the relationship between information and fiction is analyzed, showing the structural strategies used to merge facts into fiction: small transformations and isolation of actual data through a “bokeh effect”, which contribute to disrupt narrative linearity. Rastello’s novels are always destructured by means of narrative expansion and decelerations, so that the novel’s potential function as a Foucaultian device is sabotaged, while bringing out its function as a symbolic form which highlights real conflicts.
Il contributo si concentra sulla teoria del romanzo di Luca Rastello, a partire dal rapporto tra scritture d’informazione e d’invenzione. Si individuano alcune strategie strutturali per l’innesto dei fatti nella fiction: piccole alterazioni e isolamento dei dati tramite un “effetto bokeh”, che deformano la linearità narrativa. Il romanzo rastelliano è infatti sempre destrutturato (tramite ampliamenti e ral- lentamenti narrativi), così da sabotarne la potenziale funzione di dispositivo foucaultiano e fare invece emergere la sua funzione di forma simbolica, che evidenzia i conflitti reali.
Sabotare il romanzo? I fatti e l'invenzione romanzesca nella narrativa di Luca Rastello
tirinanzi de medici, carlo
2022-01-01
Abstract
This essay focuses on Luca Rastello’s theory of the novel. First, the relationship between information and fiction is analyzed, showing the structural strategies used to merge facts into fiction: small transformations and isolation of actual data through a “bokeh effect”, which contribute to disrupt narrative linearity. Rastello’s novels are always destructured by means of narrative expansion and decelerations, so that the novel’s potential function as a Foucaultian device is sabotaged, while bringing out its function as a symbolic form which highlights real conflicts.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.