{"product_id":"kafkas-italian-progeny-9781487506308","title":"Kafkas Italian Progeny","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhile many scholars of world literature view national literary traditions as resolved and stable, \u003ci\u003eKafka’s Italian Progeny\u003c\/i\u003e takes the fluid identity of the modern Italian tradition as an opportunity to reconsider its dimensions and influencers. Exploring a distinct but unexamined Kafkan tradition in modern Italian literature, it brings Italian literary works into larger debates and reorients the critical view of the Italian literary landscape. The book calls attention to the way Kafkan themes, narrative strategies, and formal experimentation appear in a range of Italian authors. Offering new perspectives on familiar figures, such as Italo Calvino, Italo Svevo, and Elena Ferrante, it also sheds light on some lesser-known authors, including Tommaso Landolfi, Paola Capriolo, and Lalla Romano.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eUsing diverse approaches to explore thematic, generic, historical, and cultural connections between Kafka’s works and those of Italian authors, the author argues for a ne\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Ziolkowski’s innovative research fills a gap in Italian comparative literature and explores the Kafkian tradition in Italy, one that has not been examined up until today.\" -- Andrea Sartori * \u003cem\u003eAnnali d’italianistica\u003c\/em\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction   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\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52195288154455,"sku":"9781487506308","price":51.85,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781487506308.jpg?v=1763647058","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/kafkas-italian-progeny-9781487506308","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}