TY - JOUR TI - Fulvio Tomizza's unresolved conflicts DO - https://doi.org/doi:10.7282/T32Z17K8 PY - 2016 AB - This study examines the “self- identity” of the Triestino-Istrian writer, Fulvio Tomizza, and it discusses the nexus nation-language identity. Tomizza’s claim of ‘non-identity’ with a nation is analyzed, as well as his recurrent themes of betrayal, guilt, shame and loneliness in his mostly autobiographical literary works. My research concentrated on the developmental stages of his character, Stefano Marcovich (Tomizza’s alter ego), using the psychosocial and psychological approaches of Erik Erikson’s theory on developmental life-cycle stages and identity crises. This study claims that the author’s difficulty of national identification stems not only from his cultural environment and the turbulent socio-political and historical events, that took place in the Venezia-Giulia region, but also from the development of his own personal psyche. KW - Italian KW - Characters in literature LA - eng ER -