Gli spazi del tempo e l’autocoscienza della memoria

Una lettura neomodernista di “Althénopis” di Fabrizia Ramondino

Abstract

In 1966, shortly after her mother’s death and influenced by her recent reading of La cognizione del dolore, Fabrizia Ramondino penned the concluding section of Althénopis. The writing process would only be resumed a decade later, providing the remaining narrative materials for a story whose epilogue had already been set. This essay proposes a neo-modernist reading of Althénopis, employing this category as a heuristic and interpretive tool to investigate the folds of a novel characterized by a complex, elusive status. Through a careful critical examination aimed at defining the discursive devices, narratological instances, and formal procedures that thicken the work’s metaliterary and self-reflexive import, this study intends to examine how Ramondino’s writing eludes the verified precision of temporal and geographical referents. In doing so, it installs a subjective and shifting counter-order within the diegetic perimeter, whereby lived experiences are re-elaborated in the present time of remembrance, reclaiming meaning and duration by virtue of their specific narrative re-semantization.