Clavis Libri

Literary device

Parallelism

Consecutive sentences or verses with the same construction, so that the reader compares what changes from one to the next.

In One, No One, and One Hundred Thousand

Ah, there it is: a usurer to the others; a fool here, to Dida, my wife. I was Gengè; a fool here, in her mind and before my wife's eyes.

"A usurer, to the others; a fool here, to Dida" repeats the same construction in two halves. The reader compares what changes between them, the place and the judgment, and sees that the body is the same.

Book III: The father and the one hundred thousand, Vitangelo Moscarda, after hearing Dida laugh at his question about his profession

I was becoming “one.” I. I, who now wanted myself this way. I, who now felt myself this way. At last. No longer a usurer (enough of that bank!): and no longer Gengè (enough of that puppet!).
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Book VI: Saying "I" to whom, Vitangelo Moscarda, shut in his room, after pushing Dida and ordering the bank closed

No name. No memory, today, of yesterday's name; of today's name, tomorrow. [...] It is nothing other than this, an epitaph, a name.
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Book VIII: Nameless and inconclusive, Vitangelo Moscarda, already in the almshouse, on the name everyone wants to give him

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