Il mio nome vero: sul rapporto tra realtà e finzione nella pentalogia di Mauro Covacich

Abstract

The article focuses on the relation between fiction, non-fiction and identity in the work of the Italian contemporary writer Mauro Covacich with regard to his «pentalogy», consisting of four novels and a video installation (A perdifiato, Fiona, Prima di sparire, L’umiliazione delle stelle, A nome tuo). Covacich draws a peculiar case within Italian literature of the past twenty years, which expresses the
necessity to discover new narrative solutions, the tendency towards hybridization of genres and the overcoming of the dialectics within actuality and artifice. This paper aims to investigate how the author uses a plurality of voices and forms, factual and fictional elements as a tool for exploring the Self. Acting as a witness to the world through his own experience, he constantly looks for the
possibility to go beyond the limits of derealization and reach «the truest truth of the self, the personally encrypted code hidden in the fibre of writing».