FRAGMENTS OF LIFE: THE PROSE OF ADA NEGRI

Abstract

The traces of the autobiographical genre proliferate abundantly in the works that try to reflect with a new perspective on the events related to the lives of women: between the eighties of the nineteenth century and the twenties of the twentieth century in Italy there are numerous testimonies that try to legitimize the alternatives, sometimes against the trend, regarding the habitus shared and accepted by bourgeois morality and the behavioral norms that social hypocrisy preaches as values ​​on which to mark existence. Ada Negri encamps in this fertile movement, as a skillful and keen observer of the existence of women: she undoubtedly places herself on the side of suffering women, scrutinizes them and reveals the vileness of social behaviors that require adherence. rigorously to behavioral norms determined and imposed by the cruel evil of patriarchy.