La trama e Ia struttura.<BR> Il narcisismo in <I>Mafarka le futuriste</I>

Futurism's African (A)temporalities

“…Daniella La Penna, following Giusi Baldessone and Alice Yaeger Kaplan, discusses the novel psychoanalytically, drawing parallels between the characters and plot and Marinetti's own life; his love for his mother, his guilt over his brother's death and his creative desires. 8 The story focuses on Mafarka-el-Bar, a warrior who, after bringing down the old order of his uncle Boubassa, goes about ruling his people belligerently until the death of his brother inspires him to create a son, without the aid of a woman. He creates Gazourmah, mechanical and immortal, who after being animated by Mafarka's kiss, kills his father.…”