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Come resistere alla narrazione e deformare il romanzo di formazione: The Hard Life di Flann O’Brien
2021
Peculiar formulation that mimics the expectations of self-cultivation and subverts its narrative modes, The Hard Life, Flann O'Brien's fourth novel, is again, very much like his prose, difficult to be categorized. Generally and simplistically defined as an-all Irish example of Bildungsroman, the novel strikes for the presentation of an environment in which comic transgressions seek to invalidate the social occasions which the protagonist finds himself in. While the conventions of the genre itself invoke a possible but distant progression and acquired maturity for the unhero, a story of failure and despair, an 'exegesis of squalor' takes over, with attacks to the Roman Catholic Church and th…