1st Edition
Secrets and Puzzles Silence and the Unsaid in Contemporary Italian Writing
By Nicoletta Simborowski
Copyright 2003
188 Pages
by
Routledge
188 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
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
Biography
Nicoletta Simborowski
