Usi e funzioni della cadenza ternaria nell'opera di Pavese

Abstract

The article aims to study the uses and functions of a stylistic peculiarity of Pavese’s work, the use of anapestic cadence in his novels. Present since his early productions, both in prose and poetry, it becomes in the mature work – at least starting from the theoretical essays contained in August holiday – an instrument that the author consciously uses to structure the narrative and highlight precise textual places – rhythmic sequences are in fact identifiable in correspondence of the narrative junctions (in attack and/or in the end of a period, in the passage from one sequence to the next), of the dialogues, of the sentences, of the enumerations – identified, by the critics and by Pavese himself, as central within his poetic. The examples will be taken from all of Pavese’s work, but more attention will be paid to the novels Women of their own and The moon and the bonfires.