Search results for " Fiction"
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Il doppio scacco di Emmanuel Carrère
2010
About one of Carrère’s non fiction novels.
Pioneers of Consciousness: hypothesis for a Dyptich
2022
The article is a close reading of two short stories in David Foster Wallace's collection "Oblivion", with particular attention to its philosophical implications and hidden features.
La longue durée du scandale: l'Affaire Montesi entre vérité et fiction
2014
Il saggio ripercorre la storia di un celebre fatto di cronaca nera, divenuto scandalo internazionale, il caso Montesi, ne considera la ricezione giornalistica e saggistica in Italia e all'estero, ed esamina alcune delle sue principali elaborazione narrative, al confine tra fiction e non fiction. The essay reconstructs a fait divers which became an international scandal, the Montesi Affair, dealing with its journalistic reception and with its main literary representations, on the edge between fiction and non fiction.
Le evasioni di Mancassola. Su M. Mancassola, Non saremo confusi per sempre
2011
About contemporary non fiction.
Commento e lettura di: Wu Ming, New Italian Epic: letteratura, sguardo obliquo, ritorno al futuro
2019
Introduction and comment of the literary essay by Wu Ming, New Italian Epic (Einaudi, 2009), with a selection of excerpts from the book.
La scelta del trauma. Eraldo Affinati negli anni '90
2017
The article reads the short stories and novels by the Italian writer Eraldo Affinati in the 1990s, with special regard to a twofold aspect: the cultural appropriation of a post-war traumatic experience by an author born in 1956, which lead to the strive to re-invent one's own past in an eventless present. Affinati's ethical approach to fiction is deeply questioned in the last part of the essay
Cornici di memorie evocate dagli oggetti
2013
About “La stanza dei fantasmi” by Corrado Stajano
Corrado Stajano. Giustizia per un sovversivo
2019
Nel campo tanto fluido e disomogeneo della cosiddetta non fiction i libri di Corrado Stajano restano un caso a parte. Nati tutti da inchieste agguerrite, ibridano tutti giornalismo e letteratura, ma sempre scansando le strategie, e le trappole, solitamente più tipiche della contaminazione tra i due ambiti […] About a new edition of “Il sovversivo” by Corrado Stajano.
Le geografie affettive di Vitaliano Trevisan
2010
About a non fiction novel by Vitaliano Trevisan.
L'autofiction
2021
The article is an introduction to history, theory and practice of the narrative cathegory of autofiction (autobiographical fiction, or fictional autobiography).