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The Struggle for Life and the Modern Italian Novel, 1859-1925

Part of the Italian and Italian American Studies Book Series

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-18850-3

ISBN: 978-3-031-18849-7

Publisher: Springer International Publishing - Springer Journals

Nov 23, 2022

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Introduction: The Anxiety of Modernization

Sartori, Andrea

Pages: 1 –22

[The focus of this book is on the Darwinian struggle for life and the modern Italian novel since, in the years between Italy’s unification (1861) and the rise of fascism in the 1920s, many writers gave voice in different ways to anxieties connected with the very idea of evolution.]
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Darwin’s Traces

Sartori, Andrea

Pages: 23 –71

[What do we talk about when we refer to the expression “struggle for life”? The meaning of this expression cannot be taken for granted, since in Charles Darwin’s text “struggle for life” aims at describing nature, but at the same time it has an irreducible metaphorical connotation. In the first...
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Svevo: (A) Life and Writing

Sartori, Andrea

Pages: 73 –127

[This chapter includes a reading of Italo Svevo’s novel A Life (1892) in the light of Darwin’s notion of “struggle for life” and takes into consideration both the author’s lifelong commitment to writing, and literary history, in Italy and abroad, between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries (in...
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De Roberto: Power and Transformism

Sartori, Andrea

Pages: 129 –174

[Federico De Roberto’s major novel I Viceré (1894; The Viceroys) can be read—unlike what Margherita Ganeri maintains—in the light of his work on the physiology and psychology of love (L’Amore, 1895; Love), a book centered for the most part on a scientific and almost Darwinian examination of human...
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Pirandello: Name and Performance

Sartori, Andrea

Pages: 175 –237

[Two events with a remarkable impact on Luigi Pirandello’s life seem to lie at the root of his narrative, from the novel Il fu Mattia Pascal (The Late Mattia Pascal, 1904) to the theatrical work Sei personaggi in cerca d’autore (Six Characters in Search of an Author, 1921–1925), up through Uno,...
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Conclusion

Sartori, Andrea

Pages: 239 –245

[This book has shown that the ambiguities of Italy’s path toward modernization were reflected, within the Darwinian perspective of the “struggle for life,” onto the adaptive issues of the protagonists of the narratives under consideration and onto the nineteenth-century crisis of the morphology...

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