Unico protagonista è il potere : allegorie, personaggi e straniamento nelle Mosche del capitale di Paolo Volponi

Le mosche del capitale coheres with a wide line of thought developed by Volponi and regarding the transformations of Italian society in the period of transition towards neocapitalism. From this perspective, the paper analyzes three fundamental aspects of the novel: the editing and the allegorical structure of the text in relation to the connection between allegory and utopia in Volponi’s narrative; the system of the characters with regard to the absence of a leading character (the protagonist is the power conceived as a language transfiguring reality) and with regard to the parallel between the author’s and the main character’s experiences; the critical and conflicting attitude of the forms (comic, grotesque, estranging) through which itself is represented.Le mosche del capitale coheres with a wide line of thought developed by Volponi and regarding the transformations of Italian society in the period of transition towards neocapitalism. From this perspective, the paper analyzes three fundamental aspects of the novel: the editing and the allegorical structure of the text in relation to the connection between allegory and utopia in Volponi’s narrative; the system of the characters with regard to the absence of a leading character (the protagonist is the power conceived as a language transfiguring reality) and with regard to the parallel between the author’s and the main character’s experiences; the critical and conflicting attitude of the forms (comic, grotesque, estranging) through which itself is represented.A