ABSTRACT
The formula 'experimental novel' has been extensively used in Italy, perhaps much more than in countries such as France, Spain, England or Germany, particularly in the 1960s and in the 1970s. Edoardo Sanguineti's prose belongs to the innovatory trend of modern literature. This chapter discusses some of Sanguineti's narrative devices which constitute the basic elements of his originality in the writing of Capriccio italiano. Sanguineti is convinced that what characterizes the neo-avant-garde novel is the narrator's awareness that what he is narrating is fiction. The reader will understand immediately that the use of language in Capriccio achieves an experience of rhythmic tonality much more than the transmission of narrative messages understood as the desire to convey and produce a story. Some psychoanalytical categories may provide good pretexts and even material concerning the psychological process of elaboration of the narrative process.
