DECADÊNCIA REAL E IMAGINATIVA O CRONOTOPO DA ESPERA EM IL PIACERE (1889), DE GABRIELE D’ANNUNZIO

Abstract

Among the possible readings of Gabriele D’Annunzio’s masterpiece, Il Piacere (1889), some of them seem still little or not at all explored, such as one in which Andrea Sperelli, the protagonist of the novel, is almost always in a state of waiting for something or someone. Based on Mikhail Bakhtin's theories on novelistic prose, one of them more specifically about the heterodiscourse and the other about the concept of chronotope, we propose to analyze this classic of Italian literature and decadent literature in the face of the way in which the narrative, which closely follows the decadent hero, constructs its discursive system and composes it, as is generally the case with decadent texts, in front of various enunciative variations, responsible for causing discrepant effects throughout the reading. All this fluctuation of styles meets the emotional instability of the young man, who transits, precisely in his waits, between the positive and the negative pole, between reality and imaginative journeys.