Italo Svevo was many men--writer and paint manufacturer, socialist and capitalist, Italian nationalist yet friend to Italy's enemies, and Jew in a predominantly Catholic culture. This new biography, the most complete to date, clarifies the contradictions in Svevo's character, finding their source in the complex political milieu of his native Trieste, in his friendships with James Joyce and the painter Veruda, and in the culture that largely ignored Svevo's literary accomplishments.

Italo Svevo: A Double Life

Gatt-Rutter, John

Literature & Fiction

Oxford University Press

Oriana Fallaci (b. 1930) is an awkward presence on Italian bookshelves, in world journalism and among feminists. This book, the first literary study of Fallaci, examines the implications of the storms and silences that she keeps rousing. A fully emancipated and successful woman in the man's world of political journalism, she has antagonised many feminists by her championship of motherhood and her idolization of heroic manhood. In journalism, her critics have felt that she has outraged the conventions of interviewing and reporting. As a novelist, she shatters the invisible diaphragm of literariness and is accused of betraying, or simply failing, literature. This book focuses on Fallaci's direct engagement as a writer with major political and social issues such as women's liberation, Vietnam, Islamic fundamentalism and the space programme. A distinctive and controversial feature of her writing is the way in which she blurs the interface between reportage and fiction in an attempt to obliterate the gap that separates the word from the world.

Oriana Fallaci: The Rhetoric of Freedom (New Directions in European Writing)

History & Criticism

Berg Publishers

<p>Oriana Fallaci (b. 1930) is an awkward presence on Italian bookshelves, in world journalism and among feminists. This book, the first literary study of Fallaci, examines the implications of the storms and silences that she keeps rousing. A fully emancipated and successful woman in the man's world of political journalism, she has antagonised many feminists by her championship of motherhood and her idolization of heroic manhood. In journalism, her critics have felt that she has outraged the conventions of interviewing and reporting. As a novelist, she shatters the invisible diaphragm of literariness and is accused of betraying, or simply failing, literature. This book focuses on Fallaci's direct engagement as a writer with major political and social issues such as women's liberation, Vietnam, Islamic fundamentalism and the space programme. A distinctive and controversial feature of her writing is the way in which she blurs the interface between reportage and fiction in an attempt to obliterate the gap that separates the word from the world.</p>

<p>This is the first time that the personal letters and writings of Italian Novelist Italo Svevo have been brought together into one volume. These writings cover the period 1901- 1926 during which Svevo stayed in London. Under his real name of Ettore Schmitz, he managed a factory in Charlton that manufactured underwater paints for the Royal Navy. Svevo was perpetually surprised by England, which he admired and criticised in equal measure. His letters to his wife chronicle his day to day life in Charlton. The writings are intriguing because they reveal a different side of the novelist and allow a glimpse of how his English experiences filtered through into his fiction writing!</p>

This England Is So Different: Italo Svevo's London Writings

Biographies & Memoirs

Moloney, Brian

Arts & Literature

Troubador Pub

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Italo Svevo: A Double Life

Oriana Fallaci: The Rhetoric of Freedom (New Directions in European Writing)

Oriana Fallaci: The Rhetoric of Freedom (New Directions in European Writing)

This England Is So Different: Italo Svevo's London Writings