In The House on Moon Lake

In the career of a love story, one written from the author's own feelings and experience, the writer, involved in an affair, first has the inspiration to write, his ongoing experience provides him with the material for the book, then the book is written, reviewed (or evaluated), sold (obtained), read, and placed in libraries. Fabrizio's life reverses this process. He starts out in a library, reads about the book, steals (obtains) the book, publishes the book, becomes obsessed by the woman in the book, returns to live where the book took place, has an affair, and dwindles away as the result of the affair--to the point where he is about to be extinguished. Thus, some time after Duranti's novel has ended he will disappear (die) and there will be the same nothingness to his life as there was to

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ite naturally (32). Fabrizio, incapable of any natural reaction, alternates between wanting to treat her like a fantasy figure of sublime romance or, "according to Fabrizio's classification," a "strumpet" (27). He always views her in literary terms, whether she is coming to rescue him as a "little warrior angel" or undressing to reveal herself as the Queen of Sheba (177). This idealization, whether it works for or against Fulvia, is a clear indication of Fabrizio's withdrawal from life as it is lived, from people as individuals, and from the world as it is constituted today. His complaints about everyone he meets reflect this dissatisfaction and prepare for his retreat into the past. His abhorrence of the current literary scene does not, of course, extend to the work of earlier generations. While rummaging through the remains of a cultured gentleman's library (whose life and descendants' lives he quickly sketches in his imagination and accepts as fact) he discovers, in "an old provincial edition," an essay by Giorgio Pasquali with which he is not familiar (18). The paragraph from this essay, in which Pasquali describes Das Haus am Mondsee is given in Duranti's text. Thus, in a way, the evaluation and the "reading" of the
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Approximate Word count = 2941
Approximate Pages = 12 (250 words per page)

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