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Nella città assediata: dislocazione e spaesamento nella Londra di Elizabeth Bowen 119<br />

elsewhere; no other place” 25 . La ricerca di senso, seppur precario, dei<br />

suoi <strong>per</strong>sonaggi – soprattutto donne – si muove in due direzioni: so-<br />

prannaturale l’una, culturale l’altra: quest’ultima comporta la rinegozia-<br />

zione dei ruoli femminili nella società. Nei racconti The Demon Lover and<br />

Other Stories e nel romanzo The Heat of the Day lo spazio urbano è in con-<br />

tinua metamorfosi, da luogo familiare si trasforma in spazio irreale.<br />

L’alterazione dello spazio influenza la <strong>per</strong>cezione che i <strong>per</strong>sonaggi han-<br />

no di sé e influisce a vari livelli sulla loro vita interiore.<br />

2. The Demon Lover: fantasie e fantasmi<br />

Nella recensione al volume The Collected Stories of Elizabeth Bowen<br />

apparsa sulla New York Times Book Review, Eudora Welty scrive:<br />

Elizabeth Bowen’s awareness of place, of where she was, seemed<br />

to approach the seismetic; it was equalled only by her close<br />

touch with the passage, the pulse, of time. (Not only what<br />

o’clock it was; She used to say, “I am the same age as our<br />

century,” a fact she enjoyed.) There was a clock in every story<br />

and novel she ever wrote; those not in running order were there<br />

to give cause for alarm. Time and place were what she found<br />

here. Her characters she invented in consequence. 26<br />

25 ELIZABETH BOWEN, “Summer Night”, in CS, pp.583-608; p. 599.<br />

26 EUDORA WELTY, “Seventy-nine Stories to Read Again”, in New York Times Book<br />

Review, 8 Febbraio 1981, p. 22, ri<strong>stampa</strong>to in PHYLLIS LASSNER, op. cit., pp. 173-179; p.<br />

175.

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