The comparison that has been drawn between the novels of Marcello Fois and Giorgio Todde focuses not only on Sardinia, but also on how Sardinian women have always embodied an important power in the collective imagination, a peculiar form...
moreThe comparison that has been drawn between the novels of Marcello Fois and Giorgio Todde focuses not only on Sardinia, but also on how Sardinian women have always embodied an important power in the collective imagination, a peculiar form of independence that has become subject of strong and determined literary representations. This kind of iconography can still be found among contemporary novelists, who develope their stories around figures of volitional and cruel women/mothers, sometimes ruthless. Such female figures are analysed in particular in the works of Marcello Fois, who, in Dura madre, depicts a woman who is ready to do anything in order to get revenge for an old offense, and of Giorgio Todde, whose main characters are the hidden keystone of psychological thrillers, dei ex machina of several crimes, driven to drastic decisions by their thirst for control more than by the normal love for children.