Secrets and Puzzles: Silence and the Unsaid in Contemporary Italian Writing

ISBN-13: 9781900755740 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 17 str.

Nicoletta Simborowski

Opis

Four Italian writers - Cesare Pavese, Primo Levi, Natalia Ginzburg and Francesca Sanvitale - who were brought up under the shadow of fascism and war are the focus of this study of the 'unsaid' in modern Italian narrative which traces the path and significance of self-censorship in post-war Italy.

Spis treści

Preface 1 Theoretical Approaches to the Unsaid and Cultural Background 2 ‘Il ritegno’: Writing and Restraint in Primo Levi 3 Cesare Pavese and the Need to Confess: Politics in Pavese’s Key Works 4 Natalia Ginzburgs Lessico famigliare 5 Silence and Women’s Writing 6 The Einaudi Publishing House, Public Attitudes and the Perception of Truth; Conclusion

O autorze

Nicoletta Simborowski