Moravia: un'ipotesi interpretativa

Abstract

A recurring story in Alberto Moravia's narrative raises questions that his texts do not openly answer: why are his young protagonists generally passive and unhappy? Why do they have sexual relationships with much older partners who are often part of, or close to, their families? Why do they remain attached to these partners, represented as devious and unreliable? Clarifications can be found by comparing this archetypal tale of Moravia's with stories collected by Sándor Ferenczi in the early 1930s: Ferenczi identifies the conditions that lead to the sexual abuse of children and adolescents, and the negative psychological effects that premature sexual relationships have on the abused. These conditions and effects all appear in Moravia's fiction, suggesting that his protagonists — although rarely coerced physically — are psychologically forced into these relationships and traumatically subject to their abusers.

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