DA GIOVANE ANIMA CREDULA A MINNIE LA CANDIDA DI MASSIMO BONTEMPELLI ANALIDI STESTUALE
FROM A GUELFUL YOUNG SOUL TO MINNIE LA CANDIDA BY MASSIMO BONTEMPELLI STUDY ANALYSIS

Summary/Abstract: This novella is taken from the collection “Woman of my dreams”. The story told in the novel is quite unique and one could even say paradoxical: two friends in a joking mood manage to convince a girl, Minnie, that the little fish swimming in an aquarium are actually mechanical fish. Not only that, but they manage to make her believe that there are also men and women around who are completely normal in appearance, but in reality also fake. Minnie; and herein lies her credulity and candor, she has no doubt of the veracity of the information that the two friends provide her. On the contrary, she convinces herself to the point of being deeply disturbed, to the point of risking believing that her own friends may be fake men, to the point of believing that she herself is a robot, and therefore to the point of going mad. The two friends treat her, try to dissuade her from her obsession, but in vain. The story that began with a naive but stupid joke ends instead in the drama: Minnie’s suicide.

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