Discover how locations, paths and places described in Bassani's "Gli occhiali d'oro" play a significant role in identifying marginalisation strategies by analysing the ways through which the relationship between the main characters and the urban space change during the story.
Interact with the following map to find out where are the places described in the pages of Bassani's "Gli occhiali d'oro" and analyse how they can mirror changes in the behaviours of the main characters of the book. That map that follows is thought to specifically highlight the way marginalisation is reflected in the geographic space lived by the characters, and especially how the routes and paths beaten by Athos Fadigati change as changes his perception before the rest of Ferarra's middle class. Taken in account as main treshold the so referred to "scandalo" (chapters 11-12) where, after having spent the summer together with Deliliers, him and Fadigati have a loud argument in front of everyone else at the Grand Hotel in Rimini, five different layers can be activated:
Where Fadigati prima and Fadigati dopo reflect respectively the main character behaviour and habits before and after the treshold, while Borgesia and Studenti are used to compare his movements to the ones of the society he is desperately trying to fit into; lastly Bassani dopo offers some interesting insights: in fact, the time that follows the summer incident temporally also corresponds to the moment when in Italy the debate about racial laws opens up and in which the narrator, being Jew, begins to feel the weight of what is about to happen and although still not being marginalized by the rest of the society, he himself starts to feel no longer fitting, nor able to merge in what was up to that moment his own world, starting to physically move away from his usual paths.