Le mosche del capitale : la palinodia del finale

The essay examines how the last novel of the author from Urbino is marked by a sudden solution in continuity with respect to his early novels. It places this deviation in the context of the internal collapse of the Capital’s progressive reform ideals. The essay documents how this allegorizing change of course had consequences on several levels within Volpini’s pages, beginning with the disappearance of the bitter and expressionistic subjectivism, which had distinguished his style. It shows how the dominant register is made up of the language of companies and bureaucracy and reveals the decline of the animistic processes that characterized the author’s subversive lyricism.