‘Soprattutto non ti abbandonare a monologhi svagati o maldicenti o rabbiosi’: Traces of Simone de Beauvoir’s ‘Monologue’ in Elena Ferrante’s <i>I giorni dell’abbandono</i>
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Abstract
In its exploration of Olga’s reaction to her husband’s sudden departure with a younger woman, Elena Ferrante’s I giorni dell’abbandono (2002) establishes a structural dialogical relationship with Simone de Beauvoir’s La femme rompue (1967). The existing scholarship that examines Ferrante’s intertextual engagement with Beauvoir’s collection of short stories focuses on ‘La femme rompue’, its eponymous final story. However, Ferrante’s novel also includes crucially significant references to ‘Monologue’, the second short story in Beauvoir’s volume. I argue that extending the comparison between the two works to include ‘Monologue’ allows a more accurate understanding of the dialogue sustained in Ferrante’s novel with Beauvoir’s collection. In particular, I demonstrate how ‘Monologue’ informs Olga’s recourse to monological and obscene forms of speech. I also scrutinize the process of fragmentation and reconstruction of Olga’s interiority — an element that speaks to ‘La femme rompue’ but also to ‘Monologue’.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.003 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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