The author, narrator and character in the novels of Walter Siti

The article considers the problem of differentiation of the author, narrator and character in the Italian autofictional novel on the example of the Italian critic and writer Walter Siti (born 1947), as the most brilliant representative of the genre in Italy. In his works Siti observes a disparity between the autobiographical and fictional points of view of Walter the character, Walter the narrator and Author, the creator, who makes the world of the character and the narrator. Siti achieves the effect of blurring the lines between reality and fiction, resorting to use of such stylistic techniques as change of perspective, introduction of the autobiographical and the pseudo-biographical facts. The reviewed article, setting the example of the trilogy “School of nude” (1994), “Ordinary pain” (1999), “Too many paradises” (2006) and other literary works of Walter Siti, gives detailed description of changes made by character and narrator, furthermore the article raises the problem of Walter Siti’s voice in his novels. The one of them belongs to the narrator-intellectual, whose range of interests is wide and contradictory. It is being traced in the novels the absence of a single genre component due to the compositional features and tendencies used by Siti in attempts to involve different stylistic registers. Analysis of the author’s style and autofiction features of Walter Siti’s works allows to get closer to the awareness of the relation between author, narrator and character in the writer’s works.