| RIVISTA DI STUDI ITALIANI | |
| Anno XVII , n° 1, Giugno 1999 ( Contributi ) | pag. 203-221 |
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FEDERICO DE ROBERTO'S L'ILLUSIONE: THEORY AND FICTION IN CONSTRUCTING THE FEMALE CHARACTER |
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| ANNAMARIA PAGLIARO | |
| Monash University, Melbourne, Australia |
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Federico De Roberto's second novel, L'illusione, which was published in 18911, is the first of the three novels of the Uzeda cycle. It narrates the first 40 years of the life of Teresa - daughter of Matilde Palmi and Raimondo Uzeda - who appears but briefly as a child in I Vicerè. Divided in three parts, the novel presents Teresa's (love) life from childhood to the period concluding with her wedding (part I), her marriage, the birth of her son, her seduction by Arconti and the separation from her husband (part II), the adulterous relationship with Arconti lasting five years, and her successive love affairs which bring her at the age of forty to realise the deceptive nature of life and to acknowledge to herself the very mediocre motives which characterised her whole existence. [...] |
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