La ‘giustizia poetica’ di Dmitrij Grigorovič ne Il ragazzo di guttaperca
This article analyzes Dmitry Grigorovich’s short novel Gutta-percha Boy (1883) with regard to its portraiture of childhood and issues of justice. The literary realism to which this novel is ascribed had developed in Russia with a special attention to specific social issues of the time and meant, in Grigorovich’s case, a particular method of work, based on an idea of ‘honesty’ that is testified to in his Memoirs, published for the first time in 1893.