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Calvino and the Age of Neorealism - Fables of Estrangement (Hardcover)
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Calvino and the Age of Neorealism - Fables of Estrangement (Hardcover)
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Italo Calvino's reputation as one of the great writers of our
century rests chiefly on his allegorical fables and fantastic
narratives, whose inventiveness, irreverence, and elegant style are
universally admired. In this study, the author focuses on Calvino's
first novel, The Path to the Nest of Spiders (1947), because in it
she discerns a critical point of origin for Calvino's entire
'ethics' of writing. She shows how, in The Path, he challenges the
poetics of objectivity of the Italian neorealists movement and
offers a complex and ironic representation of the anti-Fascist
armed resistance in Italy. Situating Calvino's early work in its
historical and cultural context, the author reassesses Italian
neorealism in terms of the theories and critical debates about
realism of such critics as Lukacs, Sartre, Brecht, Adorno, and
Barthes. She analyzes neorealism's narrative practices and cultural
and political implications, while setting neorealism in the context
of the resistance and the postwar Reconstruction in Italy and
giving readings of major neorealist texts (novels by Pavese and
Vittorini, films by Rossellini, Visconti, and others) as well as
relatively obscure minor ones. The heart of the book consists of
readings of The Path from four different but intersecting critical
perspectives: formalist-narratological, sociohistorical,
psychoanalytic, and Bakhtinian. The readings assess the importance
of Calvino's beginnings for the body of his work and incorporate
relevant references to his later fiction and critical essays. Out
of these multiple readings, the ironic estrangement of the real
through the act of writing itself emerges as his key narratological
strategy.
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