Adolescent disquiet as a symbolic space of taking-form

The Loneliness of the Marathon Runner

Abstract

The narrative produces meanings, the relationships between the actors, between the 'narrator' and the 'listeners' or 'readers' give life to a plot in which emerges, Ricouer would say, the self, that narrative identity expression of an ipse, of a self through which one can, to some extent, identify. The Loneliness of the Marathon Runner is a novel through which emerges that adolescent restlessness that pushes the protagonist to fulfil himself in a tortuous journey and, in this sense, restlessness is not to be considered as 'unbalance' or 'problematicness' but as a drive that orients the subject to define his singularity in the choices to be made for a full and authentic identity formation