Il romanzo tra responsabilità e irresponsabilità

The essay discusses and analyzes the interweaving and exchanges between mor- al responsibility and aesthetic irresponsibility in literary forms. In the first part, the Freudian tools derived from Giacomo Debenedetti and Francesco Orlando are illustrated and a hypothetical model of «compromise formation» is devel- oped as a key to interpreting the conflict between ethics and desire in every literary text. Finally, novels of the Israeli writer Abram Yehoshua are offered as a case study, and in particular «The Human Resources Supervisor’s Mission» (2004), considered as a real ideal sample for this investigation.