Gianni Celati : the craft of everyday storytelling / Rebecca J. West.
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TextSeries: Toronto Italian studiesPublisher: Toronto, [Ontario] ; Buffalo, [New York] ; London, [England] : University of Toronto Press, 2000Copyright date: ©2000Description: 1 online resource (355 pages)Content type: - text
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- 9781442675339 (e-book)
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- PQ4853.E36 .W478 2000
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
The first book-length study in any language of Celati's entire body of work, this monograph ranges over a broad landscape of critical thought and creative writing.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on print version record.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2016. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
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CHOICE Review
Relatively unfamiliar in the English-speaking world, even among specialists, the work of Gianni Celati (born 1937) exemplifies many of the fascinating directions taken by Italian narrative since the death of its acknowledged late-20th-century master, Italo Calvino, in 1985. Drawing deeply on contemporary philosophy and cultural theory, tracing literary parallels (from Boiardo to Melville to Angela Carter), and evoking her own personal acquaintance with (and interviews of) the writer, West (Univ. of Chicago) offers the first book-length study of Celati's oeuvre in any language. Including detailed analysis of Celati's work in theater, criticism, literary translation, and video as well as in fiction, the book deliberately "zigzags" (West's own metaphor) from text to text and theme to theme, but its cumulative effect is the creation of a comprehensive and substantial introduction to a writer who deserves to be much more widely known. Insightful, wide-ranging, and heartfelt, this book should win Celati many more readers (and, one hopes, translators). Graduate and research collections. S. Botterill; University of California, BerkeleyThere are no comments on this title.