Secrets and Puzzles
Silence and the Unsaid in Contemporary Italian Writing
Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism
| Author: | Nicoletta Simborowski | ISBN: | 9781351197571 |
| Publisher: | Taylor and Francis | Publication: | December 2, 2017 |
| Imprint: | Routledge | Language: | English |
| Author: | Nicoletta Simborowski |
| ISBN: | 9781351197571 |
| Publisher: | Taylor and Francis |
| Publication: | December 2, 2017 |
| Imprint: | Routledge |
| Language: | English |
"Four major Italian writers raised in the shadow of fascism - Cesare Pavese, Primo Levi, Natalia Ginzburg and Francesca Sanvitale - are the focus of this examination of the 'unsaid' in modern Italian narrative. Post-war and free of official censorship, these writers nonetheless show signs of constraint and omission in their work. Are the gaps a form of concealment? In this lucid and wide-ranging study, which embraces key areas of modern literary investigation - Holocaust writing, political guilt, autobiography, feminism and film theory - the author addresses the question of self-censorship and traces its course in contemporary Italian writing."
"Four major Italian writers raised in the shadow of fascism - Cesare Pavese, Primo Levi, Natalia Ginzburg and Francesca Sanvitale - are the focus of this examination of the 'unsaid' in modern Italian narrative. Post-war and free of official censorship, these writers nonetheless show signs of constraint and omission in their work. Are the gaps a form of concealment? In this lucid and wide-ranging study, which embraces key areas of modern literary investigation - Holocaust writing, political guilt, autobiography, feminism and film theory - the author addresses the question of self-censorship and traces its course in contemporary Italian writing."
