Emocje a symbolika przestrzeni w powieści Beppe Fenoglia Pewna prywatna sprawa

Abstract

Beppe Fenoglio's World War II novel A Private Affair (from It. Una Questione Privata), published in 1 963, is fraught with emotions that seem to transgress the borders ofliterary fiction. In consequence, it becomes possible to unite in a symbolic manner with the protagonist to fully understand his state of mind and co-experience the tragic moments of the partisan war in Italy. Furthermore, a wide range of forms of expression used by the author in some way helps to experience the process of craving illusionary love and, simultaneously, gradually losing any hope to regain the only thing he lived for. In this short novel, the author who is known for his transparent, Hemingway-like style, showed a true face of partisan reality and created a literary space, in which emotions emerge from common, apparently insignificant objects by using minimalistic, very effective narrative operations. The crucial part in the analysis is played by emotional memory, which inspires to wider interpretations.