"But what have I done with my life?" fragmentation and expansion of time in the family novel from Virginia Woolf's "To the lighthouse" to Nicola Lagioia's "La ferocia"

This essay defines the temporality axis determined by the hierarchy of the family places in which the sense of time subtracts itself to the conventional linearity and adopts a fragmented reconfiguration of the duration of the existence of each family member as the time that has now become a subjective perception. Examples are drawn from works by Marcel Proust, Elsa Morante, Virginia Woolf and Nicola Lagioia.