Pensare l’economia attraverso la letteratura: Dai cancelli d’acciaio di Gabriele Frasca e l’anti-crisi contemporanea

Gerardo Iandoli (1)

1 CAER - Centre Aixois d'Etudes Romanes

This article analyses Dai cancelli d'acciaio by Gabriele Frasca. The aim of the article is to study the economic crisis using fiction. The novel talks about Valentino, a gamer of Glorified Persons, a weird MMORPG. The relation between the boy and the videogame can be considered as an image of the difficulty to act in contemporary world. Moreover, the structure of this game can be considered a representation of the strategy of contemporary power to throw the people into apathy, in order to control them as consumers. The critical approach of the article proposes a dialogue between the theories of desire and economic thought, through the human behavior represented by fiction. Consequently, fiction can turn into a helpful tool to estimate the potential future dangers of contemporary economic world.

Mots clés: Gabriele Frasca; Dai cancelli d'acciaio

Domaines: Littératures

Gerardo Iandoli. Pensare l’economia attraverso la letteratura: Dai cancelli d’acciaio di Gabriele Frasca e l’anti-crisi contemporanea. Status Questionis, 2019, Narrating the Economy: Perspectives on the Intersections between Literature and Economics, 16, ⟨10.13133/2239-1983/15687⟩. ⟨hal-02376219⟩