Critical interest in biography and autobiography has never been
higher. However, while life-writing flourishes in the UK, in Italy
it is a less prominent genre. The twelve essays collected here are
written against this backdrop, and address issues in biographical
and autobiographical writing in Italy from the later nineteenth
century to the present, with a particular emphasis on the interplay
between individual lives and life-writing and the wider social and
political history of Italy. The majority of essays focus on
well-known writers (D'Annunzio, Svevo, Bontempelli, Montale, Levi,
Calvino, Eco and Fallaci), and their varying anxieties about
autobiographical writing in their work. This picture is rounded out
by a series of studies of similar themes in lesser known figures:
the critic Enrico Nencioni, the Welsh-Italian painter Llewellyn
Lloyd and Italian writers and journalists covering the Spanish
Civil War. The contributors, all specialists in their fields, are
Antonella Braida, Charles Burdett, Jane Everson, John Gatt Rutter,
Robert Gordon, Gwyn Griffith, Peter Hainsworth, Martin McLaughlin,
Gianni Oliva, Giuliana Pieri, and Jon Usher. The volume is
dedicated to John Woodhouse, on his seventieth birthday, and
concludes with a bibliography of his writings.
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