El monólogo interior en Fuoco infinito. Tiepolo 1917 de Melania Mazzucco

Abstract

Fuoco infinito. Tiepolo 1917 by Melania Mazzucco (Rome, 1966) presents two parallel and related narrative lines: on one hand, the biography of the great Baroque painter; on the other, the experiences of Nilo Boschini, an art history professor assigned to the preservation of artistic heritage during World War I. Concurrently, the narrator changes: Nilo’s interior monologues, aimed at reconstructing Tiepolo’s life through certainties, questions, and hypotheses, appear in the sections titled Cose che so di lui; while his experiences during the war are narrated by a third person in interspersed sections. The characteristics of the interior monologue in the novel will be examined, especially in relation to time, deixis and syntax; as well as its use in supporting biographical writing, ekphrasis and art criticism.