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Modern Italy
Journal of Modern Italian Studies
RIVISTA DI STUDI ITALIANI
Anno XXII , n° 2, Dicembre 2004 ( Contributi ) pag. 184-197
THE SEA OF SILENCE IN ISABELLA BOSSI FEDRIGOTTI'S
DI BUONA FAMIGLIA
TONIA CATERINA RIVIELLO
Santa Clara University,
Santa Clara, California
The novel Di buona famiglia contains Isabella Bossi Fedrigotti's attempt to separate and combine the emotional components of its protagonists in a family setting. The influence of war is always present, but it is largely in the background, and the two sisters, Clara and Virginia, are nurtured by their parents in an isolation that provides almost laboratory isolation, where nearly indiscernible influences, over time, contribute to unbridgeable differences in the sisters' emotional states.
The sisters are not equipped with scientific training and the early twentieth-century timeline of the novel puts their stories in a setting that predates the explicit scientific analysis of complexity in systems, whether mechanical or social. However, their close attention to and earnest recounting of their lives with many subtle influences shows that their "humanistic" analysis shares many of the objectives of recent attempts to apply rigorous methods to the analysis of emotional states, with special attention to change over time with respect to multiple influences. The sisters' shared self-analysis reaches beyond what D. Pinazo-Calatayud terms an analytical perspective based on linear causality and reductionism1. [...]
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