"Blogging the Novel. Il ruolo del blog nel romanzo di Alissa York: Fauna. (A Torontonian Narrative)"

Within the Torontonian urban multiverse, the ravines certainly add up a unique, self-contained universe, a peculiar feature in that cityscape. Ravines are profound and narrow green scars crossing the city from North to South, along the routes of ancient torrents and rivers that used to flow down into the lake. Ravines stand for the wilderness, for depth, for mystery, for alterity. From Margaret Atwood to Michael Ondaatje, to Anne Michaels, to Alissa York, it is possible to trace a genealogy of Torontonian writers who have been fascinated by the ravines in various ways. Alissa York’s novel Fauna (2010), stages the Don valley as a universe of marginality, also including a Weblog, to further complicate the plot.