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Manzoni structured his novel like a tapestry with juxtaposing planes or masses symbolizing good and evil and the redemptive tragedy that inevitably ensues when these forces meet. Thus a symmetrical expressive structure is simultaneously a moral structure. The tapestry is further crosswoven with images that interrelate and deepen the meaning of the context in which they appear or of the character with whom they are associated. They become word-symbols: words like “wall” or “skull” set tonalities, and so does “bread” as opposed to “wine” or “devil.” Similarly, descriptions involving images of light or the sun weave a dialectical fabric with images of darkness or clouds. While on the one hand the symbols exteriorize situations and events, on the other they are interiorized into the narrative and its characters so as to become their very lifeblood. What has been called Manzoni's “lyricization” of reality stems directly from this process.
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