La donna che "non esiste". Rappresentazioni del femminile nell'opera giuridico-letteraria di Salvatore Satta

The aim of this essay is to explore Salvatore Satta's work, with a special focus on the female characters which appear in his novels. Through Kafka and Benjamin's vision of the law mythical trait, the article analyses the masterpiece “Il giorno del giudizio” showing how Satta presents gender discrimination in the Sardinian cultural imagery. The narrative of the female figures and of their “guilt” of existence offers the same idea of law as life and life as judgment (i.e. as trial) which is typical of Satta’s thought.