A matter of 'genitivity'. A reading of Giuliano Gramigna’s «L'empio Enea»

Abstract

The aim of the essay is to analyze Giuliano Gramigna’s fourth novel, L’empio Enea, published in 1972, especially its function as a bridge-work between a first phase in the writer’s narrative, marked by the productivity of some Marcel Proust heritage, and a second phase, where the Joyce model is mainly influential. The focus is to show how the Joycian magisterium is developed by Gramigna with particular attention to the psychoanalytic-linguistic thought of Jacques Lacan, thoroughly meditated by the author both in non-fiction and in poetic or prose production. Drawing on the latest book by prof. Giorgio Ficara Il padre sulle spalle (The Father on the back), we also focus on the treatment undergone by the virgilian epic palimpsest, which goes through an anti-heroic and contemporary rewriting.