Secrets and Puzzles

Silence and the Unsaid in Contemporary Italian Writing
1. Auflage 2002
ISBN: 978-1-900755-74-0
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 188 Seiten, Format (B × H): 138 mm x 220 mm, Gewicht: 281 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Simborowski, Nicoletta

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Fremdsprachenerwerb und -didaktik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Nicoletta Simborowski