Elettra, Alcmena e il gioco della letteratura. Le riscritture intrecciate di Fabrizia Ramondino e Lea Ritter Santini

This study aims to analyze in parallel the mythic reinterpretations of the figures of Electra and Alcmene carried out by the writer Fabrizia Ramondino and the comparatist Lea Ritter Santini. The parallel reading of these two texts is grounded in chronological reasons—both rewritings were produced in 1983—as well as biographical ones—the two authors are said to have become friends in 1984, forming an existential and intellectual partnership whose significance still deserves to be rediscovered today—and thematic ones. My goal is to show how both Ramondino’s Electra and Ritter Santini’s Alcmenefunction as autobiographical incarnations that, through the process of re-narration, become vehicles for a metaliterary discourse. This discourse identifies literature—in its constitutive sense and in the practices that derive from it—as the core of a fluid vision of reality endowed with unprecedented transfigurative and transformative potential.