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More Becoming to a Man: Fathers, Sons, and the Novel of Education in Giorgio Bassani’s <i>Il giardino dei Finzi-Contini</i>

2015; Cambridge University Press; Volume: 35; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.33137/q.i..v35i2.23619

2293-7382

Andrea Malaguti,

Italian Literature and Culture

The article examines the dynamics of interaction between fathers and sons in Giorgio Bassani’s <i>The Garden of the Finzi-Contini</i> in a Lacanian perspective. In doing so, it discusses the often uncritically ascribed label of <i>Bildungsroman</i> as belonging to the novel in question only as an element of parody, which more keenly underscores the tension of the time between the approval of the racial laws (November 1938) and the eve of WWII (August 1939). It also provides the basis for further discussion on the identity of the narrating subject and his role in the <i>Romanzo di Ferrara</i> as a whole.