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Vengeance of the Victim: History and Symbol in Giorgio Bassani’s Fiction: Minnesota Publications in the Humanities, cartea 5

Autor Marilyn Schneider
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 17 noi 1986
Vengeance of the Victim was first published in 1986. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.
More profoundly than any documentary record, the collected fiction of Giorgio Bassani—Il Romanzo di Ferrara — captures a very particular and powerful historical reality: Italian Jewish life under Fascism, especially between the passage of the so-called racial laws in 1938 and the end of World War II. Set primarily in the provincial city of Ferrara, Bassani's narratives interweave themes of death, victimization, betrayal, survival, and artistic production. His best-known novel, The Garden of the Finzi-Continis — and other works that concentrate on the crucial years of 1938-1945—stand at the center of the Romanzo.They are preceded by texts that look back on Jewish life in the liberal era of the Risorgimento, and followed by texts set in the liberated, democratic society of the postwar years. These framing narratives provide a space for remembrance and reflection.
Marilyn Schneider's aim, in Vengeance of the Victim, is to uncover the symbolic layers — historical, spatial, topographical, mythopoeic, allegorical, and sexual — that five Bassani's texts their richness and ambiguity, and in so doing to achieve a full understanding of his work and its representation of the Italian Jewish experience. Death and victimization, which pervade these texts, set in motion a process of artistic renewal that is most fully embodied in the vibrant young Micol Finzi-Contini, Bassani's textual icon and a victim of the Holocaust. Schneider also finds that the narratives, especially the late ones, pay self-reflexive attention to the creation of the text, constructing an authorial persona engaged in an existential, moral, and artistic journey from symbolic death to rebirth. It is the writing subject's successful completion of the journey that constitutes the vengeance of the victim.
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ISBN-13: 9780816615131
ISBN-10: 0816615136
Pagini: 264
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.4 kg
Ediția:Minnesota Archi.
Editura: University of Minnesota Press
Colecția Univ Of Minnesota Press
Seria Minnesota Publications in the Humanities


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Marilyn Schneider was a professor of Italian and comparative literature at the University of Minnesota. She served as chair of the French and Italian department and associate dean of humanities in the College of Liberal Arts at Minnesota. Her essays on modern Italian writers have appeared in PMLA, Comparative Literature, Yale Italian Studies, and other journals.

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