Vulgar Dinner In Gulia Analysis

“In Pavese’s writings is clearly seen the counter between the city and the village, adolescence and manhood, but also between childhood and maturity" according to Segre (2000: XXIV),"to the young man belongs the strain to understand reality, recognize the outside world that an adult should dominate so much as to look 'the internal life '.Pavese’s writing turns into a "moral and vital need" (Grana, 1982, 6278), which is subject to filter the subjective reality of cognitive sensitivity. Pavese in his personal diary on 25 December 1937 wrote: "There is something much more sadder than to grow old, and it is to remain a child”. The human drama consists precisely in a long incurable teens, in contrast with the aspiration of being adult, mature and

The party has degraded in secret parody, "a symbol of a wound to be healed or of a gap to be filled" (Jesi 1968: 163): two peers united to drink a glass of wine and sat together. At the end, the celebration dinner becomes a vulgar dinner between the main character and Gulia: two teenage lovers united, who find temporary comfort against loneliness to the sex and wine or, as Pavese silenzio frusciante del cuore- in the murmurous silence of the heart. Giulia … capriccio: Giulia… whim, the character of Giulia is only a substitute for the character of Maria and in the eyes of the main character it is designed as an image of the opposite of Mary, coming from a pariah society, almost like a beast in behavior, like an animal. The description is given is short sentences and the verbs used were seemed, looked, behaved, pareva un gatto- looked like a cat, or almost not expressed imitava con la voce il rumore- imitating the noice with the voice, etc. The end of the story episode closes with explanatory: Mentre mi vestivo … se ne andò - while I was dressinf ... he left, is the clarifying episode, without an alibi, the main character is put in front of the definit detection of loneliness, not balanced anymore from hope but only surrounded by misery and vulgarity. It can be said that Pavese’s merit consists on the characters’ provincialization and the use of a new language, the slang. This prose had the influence of the Anglo-American literature. Pavese is more interested to reflect the symbolic presentation of the reality, of what is hidden beyond appearances. The main characters of the story commiserate characters that leave their place of origin such as Gallo and the main character. Through his writing, Pavese deepens the memorial the search of the private mythology and his background was classic, Greek and Mediterranean. Pavese’s efforts were for a new scenery and he opened a coil in a new era for the Italian narrative