Un'estetica nell'anestetica. Francesco Pecoraro

Appealing to three different interpretations, this essay aims to present Francesco Pecoraro’s fictional aesthetics. The first focuses on his characters and, drawing on Debenedetti’s theory and some recent biological and anthropological theories, analyses the different types of (anti)heroes we meet in his novels. The second looks out to novels’ different settings, which constitute one of the centre of Pecoraro’s speculative investigation : from the Valle Aurelia district to the airport of Sharm-el-Sheik, from Lavinio’s beach to the Greek islands, each environment allegorically refers to the relationship between utility and beauty. The third core of the investigation shifts our gaze to the category of the novel-essay : the fragmentation and contamination of voices and points of view become one of the most effective strategies through which this writer defines his very personal ethics, disenchanted but not entirely challenged.