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Difficult Games
A Reading of I Racconti by Italo Calvino
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English
Published/Copyright:
2006
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Examining Calvino's literary experiments as a young artist in search of his narrative voice, Ricci explores the psychological and existential motivations intrinsically linked to the writer's need for textual and systemic patterning. I racconti contains some of Calvino's least-read works, yet these early stories address issues, present scenarios and generate a growing variation of themes that form the heart of Calvino's narrative discourse. Ricci points out that melancholy permeates Calvino's works—even at his most playful. He suggests that if Calvino's highest merit was his sense of wonder and his urge to transform and defeat obscurantism with all the joy he could muster, one must remember that his work expressed, often painfully, the limits of human rationalism. I racconti can thus be read as a catalogue of the anxieties of both the young author and postwar Italian society.
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Contributor: Franco Ricci
Franco Ricci teaches in the Department of Modern Languages and Literature at the University of Ottawa. Specializing in contemporary Italian literature, he has published numerous articles on Italo Calvino. He is the editor of the book Calvino Revisited.
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Front Matter
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Contents
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Acknowledgments
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Editorial Note
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Introduction
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I Racconti
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"Difficult Idylls": The Evanescence of Paradise
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"Difficult Memories": The Tightrope of Time
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"Difficult Loves": The Elusive Self
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"A Difficult Life": Life in the Silent Labyrinth
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Conclusion
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Notes
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Bibliography
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Index
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Literary Criticism
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