Appendix Who Were You? Interview with Anna Maria Ortese (1973)

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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Abbreviations xi
5. Introduction: Anna Maria Ortese and the Red-Footed Angel 3
6. Part One: From Naples to Paris (via Jerusalem): Modern Alienation and Utopian Reality
7. 1. “Clouds in Front of My Eyes”: Ortese’s Poetics of the Gaze in “Un paio di occhiali” and Il mare non bagna Napoli 35
8. 2. Cities “Paved with Casualties”: Ortese’s Journeys through Urban Modernity 78
9. 3. Biographies of Displacement and the Utopian Imagination: Anna Maria Ortese, Hannah Arendt, and the Artist as “Conscious Pariah” 112
10. Part Two: Life of a Celestial Body: Making and Unmaking the Self
11. 4. Epistolary Self-Storytelling: Anna Maria Ortese’s Letters to Massimo Bontempelli 143
12. 5. Anna Maria Ortese’s Early Short Fiction: A Re-reading of Angelici dolori 191
13. 6. The Three Lives of Bettina: From Il cappello piumato to Poveri e semplici (and Back) 215
14. 7. On the Ruins of Time: Toledo and the (Auto)fiction of the Ephemeral 246
15. Part Three: On Becoming Beast: Iguanas, Linnets, Lions, and the Geography of Otherness
16. 8. Beasts, Goblins, and Other Chameleonic Creatures: Anna Maria Ortese’s “Real Children of the Universe” 295
17. 9. “Call Me My Name”: The Iguana, the Witch, and the Discovery of America 323
18. 10. The Flickering Light of Reason: Anna Maria Ortese’s Il cardillo addolorato and the Critique of European Modernity 356
19. 11. The Enigmatic Character of Elmina: A Thread in a Vertiginous Web 385
20. 12. Alonso, the Poet and the Killer: Ortese’s Eco-logical Reading of Modern Western History 409
21. Part Four: An Uncommon Reader
22. 13. An “Uncommon Reader”: The Critical Writings of Anna Maria Ortese 435
23. Appendix Who Were You? Interview with Anna Maria Ortese (1973) 459
24. Primary Works by Anna Maria Ortese 471
25. Contributors 473
26. Index 477