La finzioni di Mauro Covacich

The article focuses on the works of the Italian contemporary writer Mauro Covacich and more particularly discusses issues related to autobiographical writing, autofiction, performance art and self-fashioning. The author aims to consider Covacich’s works – including even a video-performance – as examples of a new trend in Italian contemporary fiction, which challenges the end of Postmodernism and expresses the need to find out new forms of narrative consistency. Autofiction as a genre will be discussed against a wider theoretical backdrop and in comparison with autobiography, factual narrative and performance art. The author will show how Covacich, despite some ambivalences, tries to use a mixture of factual and fictional narrative as a critical tool for inquiring the self.