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Neapolitan Chronicles

By: Anna Maria Ortese

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This prizewinning collection of stories and essays set in post-WWII Naples is “required reading for [Elena] Ferrante fans” (Kirkus Reviews). A classic of European literature, this superb collection of fiction and reportage is set in Italy’s most vibrant and turbulent metropolis—Naples—in the immediate aftermath of World War II. Depicting the widespread suffering and brutal desperation that plagued the city, it comprises a mix of masterful storytelling and piercing journalism. This book, with its unforgettable portrait of Naples high and low, is also a stunning literary companion to the great neorealist films of the era by directors such as Vittorio De Sica and Roberto Rossellini. From an author who has won most of Italy’s major literary prizes and served as “a major inspiration for Elana Ferrante,” Neapolitan Chronicles is exquisitely rendered in English by acclaimed translators Ann Goldstein and Jenny McPhee (The New York Times). Included in the collection is “A Pair of Eyeglasses,” one of the most widely praised Italian short stories of the last century. “Elena Ferrante has cited Ortese as one of her greatest influences . . . This collection of short stories and essays [infuses] a grimy, chaotic Naples with unsentimental menace.” —The New Yorker “A writer of exceptional prowess and force. The stories collected in this volume, which reverberate with Chekhovian energy and melancholy, are revered in Italy by writers and readers alike.” —Jhumpa Lahiri, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Interpreter of Maladies

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1939931568

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Neapolitan Chronicles

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A Very Italian Christmas

The Greatest Italian Holiday Stories of All Time

By: Giovanni Boccaccio,Luigi Pirandello,Camillo Boito,Matilde Serao,Anna Maria Ortese,Andrea De Carlo,Grazia Deledda,Giovanni Verga,Natalia Ginzburg

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A Very Italian Christmas

The Greatest Italian Holiday Stories of All Time

By: Giovanni Boccaccio,Luigi Pirandello,Camillo Boito,Matilde Serao,Anna Maria Ortese,Andrea De Carlo,Grazia Deledda,Giovanni Verga,Natalia Ginzburg

Classic and contemporary Christmas stories by great writers from Boccaccio to Strega Prize winner Anna Maria Ortese to Nobel laureate Grazia Deledda. The third in the very popular Very Christmas series, this volume brings together the best Italian Christmas stories of all time in a vibrant collection featuring classic tales and contemporary works. With writing that dates from the Renaissance to the present day, from Boccaccio to Pirandello, as well as Anna Maria Ortese, Natalia Ginzburg, and Grazia Deledda, these literary gems are filled with ancient churches, trains whistling through the countryside, steaming tureens, plates piled high with pasta, High Mass, dashed hopes, golden crucifixes, flowing wine, shimmering gifts, and plenty of style. Like everything the Italians do, this is Christmas with its very own verve and flair, the perfect literary complement to a Buon Natale italiano. Includes stories by: Luigi Pirandello ·• Camillo Boito • Matilde Serao • Anna Maria Ortese • Andrea De Carlo • Grazia Deledda • Giovanni Verga • Giovanni Boccaccio • Natalia Ginzburg

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Broken Time, Fragmented Space

A Cultural Map for Postwar Italy

By: Anna Maria Torriglia

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Broken Time, Fragmented Space

A Cultural Map for Postwar Italy

By: Anna Maria Torriglia

Examines how the artists and intellectuals of post-war Italy dealt with the 'shameful' heritage of their fascist upbringing and education by trying to craft a new cultural identity for themselves and the country.

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272

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University of Toronto Press

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080203604X

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9780802036049

Italian Literature in the Nuclear Age

A Poetics of the Bystander

By: Maria Anna Mariani

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Italian Literature in the Nuclear Age

A Poetics of the Bystander

By: Maria Anna Mariani

Italian Literature in the Nuclear Age: A Poetics of the Bystander explores the overlooked position of the bystander in the Nuclear Age by focusing on the Italian situation as a paradigmatic case. Host to hundreds of American atomic weapons while lacking a nuclear arsenal of its own, Italy's status was an ambiguous one: that of an unwilling--and in many ways passive--accomplice. Inspired by Seamus Heaney's dictum that there is no such thing as innocent by-standing, the book frames Italy's fraught mix of implication and powerlessness not only as a geopolitical question, but as a way to rethink the role of the sidelined intellectual in the face of mass extinction. Italian Literature in the Nuclear Age includes discrete chapters on the major Italian intellectuals of the time: Italo Calvino, Alberto Moravia, Elsa Morante, Pier Paolo Pasolini, and Leonardo Sciascia. Conscious of their own political marginalization, these authors address the atomic question through a wide range of experimental forms, approaching the nearly unthinkable theme in allusive and oblique ways. Often dismissed as disengaged, inconsistent, or merely playful, these works demand instead a political reading capable of recognizing their confrontation with the paradoxes of the nuclear age.

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Oxford University Press

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0192868853

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9780192868855

A Very Italian Christmas

The Greatest Italian Holiday Stories of All Time

By: Giovanni Boccaccio,Luigi Pirandello,Camillo Boito,Matilde Serao,Anna Maria Ortese,Andrea De Carlo,Grazia Deledda,Giovanni Verga,Natalia Ginzburg

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The Greatest Italian Holiday Stories of All Time

By: Giovanni Boccaccio,Luigi Pirandello,Camillo Boito,Matilde Serao,Anna Maria Ortese,Andrea De Carlo,Grazia Deledda,Giovanni Verga,Natalia Ginzburg

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Neapolitan Chronicles

Neapolitan Chronicles

Neapolitan Chronicles

Neapolitan Chronicles

A Very Italian Christmas

A Very Italian Christmas

Broken Time, Fragmented Space

Broken Time, Fragmented Space

Italian Literature in the Nuclear Age

Italian Literature in the Nuclear Age

A Very Italian Christmas

A Very Italian Christmas

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