The novel Scherzetto, by the Italian writer Domenico Starnone, is permeated by the impact that the spaces we inhabit have on our lives. Its narrator, upon returning to his hometown, faces the places of his past and who he was or could have become while was there; he loses and finds himself each revisited time, especially when reflecting on who he has now turned into. Starting from the conflicting feeling of belonging to a certain space, and going through the understanding of the formation of images from memories, this dissertation seeks to investigate the literary procedures used in the construction of a spatiality crossed by the ghosts of the past, especially with the proposal of a narrative maintained in a kind of suspended zone in space and time, located between the house from decades ago and the one existing now.