Ania, GF 1999, 'At Capriolo's hotel: heaven, hell and otherworlds in 'Il dopio regno'' , Italian Studies, 54 , pp. 132-156.
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Abstract
Paola Capriolo has stated that the kind of truth she searches for and tries to express is outside the sphere of everyday life. She has also claimed: 'Per me la letteratura non può essere che astrazione; anche autoestraniazione e distacco dall'io. Quindi sia dalla realtà che dal realismo'. Her work stands in contrast to the realistic mode of writing and the novels of social comment and protest prevalent in the Italy of the 1960s and early 1970s (exemplified by authors such as Leonardo Sciascia and Dacia Maraini). Instead she focuses on traditional, timeless themes, embracing the preference for tales of the imagination and fantasy shared by Italo Calvino, Antonio Tabucchi, and Anna Maria Ortese, albeit in different contexts. However, she is distanced from writers like these by her nostalgic return to a more formal Italian, displaying little of the linguistic experimentalism of the 1980s and 1990s (Tabucchi, Alessandro Baricco) or the more 'provocative and innovative' styles and topics of very recent years.
Item Type: | Article |
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Themes: | Subjects / Themes > D History General and Old World > DG Italy Subjects / Themes > P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General) Memory, Text and Place |
Schools: | Schools > School of Humanities, Languages & Social Sciences > Centre for Translating and Interpreting Schools > School of Humanities, Languages & Social Sciences |
Journal or Publication Title: | Italian Studies |
Publisher: | Maney Publishing |
Refereed: | Yes |
ISSN: | 00751634 |
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Depositing User: | Institutional Repository |
Date Deposited: | 11 Feb 2009 16:15 |
Last Modified: | 15 Feb 2022 15:34 |
URI: | http://usir.salford.ac.uk/id/eprint/1747 |
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