Abstract
Rosetta Loy wrote seven novels, a collection of short stories, and a memoir of her life as a child in Rome at the time of the Fascist racial laws. The first part of this article shows that many topics, situations and characters recur with an unusually high frequency in her work. The second part shows the changing details with which some characters or events are invested in different versions of the same stories. The third and final part suggests three possible reasons for this way of writing. They are: an elaborate search for narrative effectiveness, a deep-rooted need to understand and, when possible, to integrate difftrent points of view on some of the characters and their moral choices, and the desire to explore the effects that small alterations caused by chance can have on the course of human lives.
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