2. Dreams of Short Fiction after Kafka: Lalla Romano, Giorgio Manganelli, and Antonio Tabucchi

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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction: Kafka, World Literature, and the Italian Literary Landscape 1
5. 1. Amerika in Italy: Kafka’s Realism, Pavese, and Calvino 32
6. 2. Dreams of Short Fiction after Kafka: Lalla Romano, Giorgio Manganelli, and Antonio Tabucchi 80
7. 3. Processi without End: The Mysteries of Dino Buzzati and Paola Capriolo 126
8. 4. Kafka’s Parental Bonds: The Family as Institution in Italian Literature 171
9. 5. The Human-Animal Boundary, Italian Style: Kafka’s Red Peter in Conversation with Svevo’s Argo, Morante’s Bella, and Landolfi’s Tombo 212
10. Epilogue: Calvino’s Kafka and Kafka’s Italy 249
11. Works Cited 257
12. Index 293