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Roman Elegy
Writer Clara Burger arrives in Rome in 2009 to clear the flat of her school friend Ines, who has died prematurely from cancer. Sorting through Ines' belongings, Clara finds a manuscript containing an autobiographical account of strange experiences that Ines had while working as a chambermaid in Rome in the summer of 1978. Wrapped up with her diaries, Clara also discovers the life story of Ines' former employer, the hotelier Emma Manente. An ethnic German from Italy's troubled South Tyrol region like Clara and Ines, Emma first came to Rome in the late 1930s and became an eyewitness to the turbulent events of the subsequent decades: Benito Mussolini's fascist regime, the Nazi occupation, and the uneasy post-war democracy threatened by corruption and extremism.A sweeping tale of remembrance and reconciliation, of lives unfulfilled and loves unrequited, Roman Elegy tells the personal stories of these three resilient women and how they came to terms with the times in which they lived. The narratives are woven together with a fascinating historical perspective on the Eternal City in all its contrasting squalor and beauty, compassion and savagery.Sabine Gruber was born in 1963 in Merano, Italy, and has published widely, with a particular focus on the work of the South Tyrolean author Anita Pichler. She was awarded the 2008 Linz Book Prize for her previous novel Overnight, which was also long-listed for the German Book Prize.
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The Mirage of America in Contemporary Italian Literature and Film
The Mirage of America in Contemporary Italian Literature and Film explores the use of images associated with the United States in Italian novels and films released between the 1980s and the 2000s. In this study, Barbara Alfano looks at the ways in which the individuals portrayed in these works – and the intellectuals who created them – confront the cultural construct of the American myth. As Alfano demonstrates, this myth is an integral part of Italians’ discourse to define themselves culturally – in essence, Italian intellectuals talk about America often for the purpose of talking about Italy.
The book draws attention to the importance of Italian literature and film as explorations of an individual’s ethics, and to how these productions allow for functioning across cultures. It thus differentiates itself from other studies on the subject that aim at establishing the relevance and influence of American culture on Italian twentieth-century artistic representations.
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Bloodlines
\"When Guiseppe Mundula first sees Michele Angelo Chironi across the corridor of a Sardinian orphanage, the blacksmith realizes that he has found the son and heir he never knew he needed. And when a few years later, Michele himself looks down from the ladder on which he is working and sees the beautiful Mercede, he knows that he has found the woman he will marry. So begins Fois' magisterial domestic epic of the lives, loves, and losses of the Chironi family as they struggle through war and fascism. Deftly endowing familial horrors with mythical resonance, Fois creates a Dantesque triptych that inscribes the history of twentieth-century Sardinia, and sweeping changes across Europe, onto the historical tablet of a single misbegotten household\" -- Provided by publisher.
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From Margins to Mainstream
Carol Lazzaro-Weiss studies the fiction of twenty-five contemporary Italian women writers. Arguing for a notion of gender and genre, she runs counter to many Anglo-American and French feminist theorists who contend that traditional genres cannot readily serve as vehicles for feminist expression.
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Where Currents Meet
Where Currents Meet treats the Ukrainian and Russian components of cultural experience in Ukraine’s East as elements of a complex continuum. This study of cultural memory in post-Soviet space shows how its inhabitants negotiate the historical legacy they have inherited. Tanya Zaharchenko approaches contemporary Ukrainian literature at the intersection of memory studies and border studies, and her analysis adds a new voice to an ongoing exploration of cultural and historical discourses in Ukraine. This scholarly journey through storylines explores the ways in which younger writers in Kharkiv (Kharkov in Russian), a diverse, dynamic, but understudied border city in east Ukraine today come to grips with a traumatized post-Soviet cultural landscape. Zaharchenko’s book examines the works of Serhiy Zhadan, Andrei Krasniashchikh, Yuri Tsaplin, Oleh Kotsarev and others, introducing them as a “doubletake\" generation who came of age during the Soviet Union’s collapse and as adults revisited this experience in their novels. Filling the space between society and the state, local literary texts have turned into forms of historical memory and agents of political life.
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Lampedusa
\"Set in a sun-drenched Sicily, among the decadent Italian aristocracy of the late 1950s, Steven Price's Lampedusa explores the final years of Giuseppe Tomasi, the last prince of Lampedusa, as he struggles to complete his only novel, The Leopard. In 1955, Tomasi was diagnosed with advanced emphysema; shortly after, he began work on a novel that would fail to be published before his death four years later. When The Leopard at last appeared, it won Italy's Strega Prize and became the greatest Italian novel of the century\" -- Amazon.com
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Gender, Narrative, and Dissonance in the Modern Italian Novel
Combining close textual readings with a broad theoretical perspective, this book is a study of the ways in which gender shapes the characters and narratives of seven important Italian novels of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
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