Il romanzo circadiano. Il caso di Cosmopolis di Don DeLillo

This contribution intends to give a first theorization of circadian novel, which story is set in a single day, by adopting David Harvey’s concept of ‘time-space compression’ and Fre- dric Jameson’s literary theory of the political unconscious, to find a correlation between formal structure of these novels and historical context. Then, the essay focuses on a parti- cular twenty-first century circadian novel, Don DeLillo’s Cosmopolis, as the summary of an experimental narrative tradition, in order to offer a concrete analysis of the inner workings of one-day novels.