This book explores Kafka’s sometimes surprising connections with key Italian writers, from Italo Calvino to Elena Ferrante, who shaped Italy’s modern literary landscape.
This book explores Kafka’s sometimes surprising connections with key Italian writers, from Italo Calvino to Elena Ferrante, who shaped Italy’s modern literary landscape.
Saskia Elizabeth Ziolkowski is an assistant professor of Italian in Romance Studies at Duke University.
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Introduction Kafka, World Literature, and the Italian Literary Landscape The Place of Italian Literature in World Literature Debates Kafka’s Italian Reception: An Overview Morante and Buzzati: Two Cases of Kafka Reception Kafka’s Italian Progeny: An Overview 1. Amerika in Italy: Kafka’s Realism, Pavese, and Calvino Kafka’s Amerika in Italy The Italian View of Kafka’s Realism Calvino’s Realist Kafka Amerika and The Path to the Spiders’ Nests: Finding and Losing the Way, All Over Again The Americas of Kafka and Pavese 2. Dreams of Short Fiction after Kafka: Lalla Romano, Giorgio Manganelli, and Antonio Tabucchi Lyrical, Short Kafka Experimenting with Short, Short Works after Kafka The Transformations of Romano, Manganelli, and Tabucchi 3. Processi without End: The Mysteries of Dino Buzzati and Paola Capriolo Kafka, Detective Fiction, and Italy The Structures of Suspense: Questions, Identity, and Home Prisons of Analysis and the Pull of Imagination 4. Kafka’s Parental Bonds: The Family as Institution in Italian Literature The Familial Institution in Kafka and Modern Italian Literature Svevo’s A Life and Ferrante’s Troubling Love: Societal Stress and the Bonds of Family Leaving Parental Bonds in Bontempelli’s The Son of Two Mothers and Morante’s Arturo’s Island 5. The Human-Animal Boundary, Italian Style: Kafka’s Red Peter in Conversation with Svevo’s Argo, Morante’s Bella, and Landolfi’s Tombo Italian Literature, Kafka, and Animal Studies Communication across Species: The Monologues of Kafka’s Red Peter and Svevo’s Argo Interspecial Communication: Landolfi’s Châli and Tombo, Morante’s Belli and Immacolatella The Language of Animals and Dialects Animal Bodies and Christian Spirit in Morante, Landolfi, and Buzzati Epilogue Calvino’s Kafka and Kafka’s Italy
Introduction Kafka, World Literature, and the Italian Literary Landscape The Place of Italian Literature in World Literature Debates Kafka’s Italian Reception: An Overview Morante and Buzzati: Two Cases of Kafka Reception Kafka’s Italian Progeny: An Overview 1. Amerika in Italy: Kafka’s Realism, Pavese, and Calvino Kafka’s Amerika in Italy The Italian View of Kafka’s Realism Calvino’s Realist Kafka Amerika and The Path to the Spiders’ Nests: Finding and Losing the Way, All Over Again The Americas of Kafka and Pavese 2. Dreams of Short Fiction after Kafka: Lalla Romano, Giorgio Manganelli, and Antonio Tabucchi Lyrical, Short Kafka Experimenting with Short, Short Works after Kafka The Transformations of Romano, Manganelli, and Tabucchi 3. Processi without End: The Mysteries of Dino Buzzati and Paola Capriolo Kafka, Detective Fiction, and Italy The Structures of Suspense: Questions, Identity, and Home Prisons of Analysis and the Pull of Imagination 4. Kafka’s Parental Bonds: The Family as Institution in Italian Literature The Familial Institution in Kafka and Modern Italian Literature Svevo’s A Life and Ferrante’s Troubling Love: Societal Stress and the Bonds of Family Leaving Parental Bonds in Bontempelli’s The Son of Two Mothers and Morante’s Arturo’s Island 5. The Human-Animal Boundary, Italian Style: Kafka’s Red Peter in Conversation with Svevo’s Argo, Morante’s Bella, and Landolfi’s Tombo Italian Literature, Kafka, and Animal Studies Communication across Species: The Monologues of Kafka’s Red Peter and Svevo’s Argo Interspecial Communication: Landolfi’s Châli and Tombo, Morante’s Belli and Immacolatella The Language of Animals and Dialects Animal Bodies and Christian Spirit in Morante, Landolfi, and Buzzati Epilogue Calvino’s Kafka and Kafka’s Italy
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