DOI:  10.53136/979122181938015 
                                                        
                                                            Pagine: 207-223
                                                        
                              
                                                                                                
                                
                                                            
                             Data di pubblicazione: Giugno 2025
                            
                                                        Editore: Aracne
                                                        
                                                                    
                                    
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                    The paper analyses the representations of childhood and old age in Swedish author Ulf Stark’s oeuvre. Using an interdisciplinary perspective that intertwines close reading, evidence-based paradigm, and interpretative semiotics, the research focuses on two novels by Stark, showing how the author manages to promote the intergenerational care relationship between older people and children by exalting its beauty and health and wellness benefits, and at the same time by re-interpreting the two ages, of which his work recognises and restores past, present, and future agency.