ТHE TRANSFORMATION OF NAPLES THROUGH CESARE ANNUNZIATA’S MATURATION IN THE TEMPTATION TO BE HAPPY BY LORENZO MARONE

Abstract

In his novel The temptation to be happy, Lorenzo Marone depicts the late maturation of Cesare Annunziata, the main character who, in his seventies, establishes stronger ties with society, including family members. Living in Naples, a city teeming with people, at first he avoids situations where he must interact with others, but this slowly changes through a series of pleasant and unpleasant events. As Cesare Annunciata changes, so does the image of Naples. In this paper, we follow the construction of the image of the city and the opening of views of Naples. We analyse the course of the narration in order to see the writer's procedure by which he successfully avoids the possibility of giving the usual representations of one of the most described cities in literature and forms a representation that will be new and unique.