This master's thesis focuses on the analysis of the narratological structure and chronotopes within five novels written by Sandro Veronesi: Gli sfiorati, Caos calmo, Terre rare, XY and Il colibrì. The thesis proposes to answer the following question: do the characters in Veronesi's stories change or remain the same, and in what way does the writer present this (lack of) change to his readers. Tzvetan Todorov's argument is that we can observe the same structure in all narrative texts, i.e. that stories begin with an equilibrium, which is then broken and later restored again. Another author whose arguments were used as the theoretical basis for the analysis is Mikhail Bakhtin and his concept of the chronotope. In this thesis we have identified Todorov's stages within Veronesi's novels as well as defined and described the two chronotopes that appear in the lives of the author's character when the latter are in disequilibrium.
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