The essay has as its object of analysis of the Cesare Pavese’s anthology of poetry, entitled La terra e la morte and dedicated to Bianca Garufi. It is a complex and highly symbolic poetry, of which we try to provide ...

This study aims to investigate The Island (1973), a South African rewriting of the Sophocles’s Antigone. The drama was conceived by Athol Fugard, the most acclaimed contemporary South African playwright, assisted by John ...

Antonio Tabucchi gives many definitions of saudade, that from time to time show the peculiar and exclusive side of this entirely Portuguese feeling, that torments many writers since the kingdom of Duarte in the 15th century. ...

The present article underlines the importance of autobiographical writing for the Italian famous writer Cesare Pavese. It discusses how literary criticism used the presence of obvious autobiographical elements in some ...

The first impression made by Redacted is of a reality completely kept under surveillance and reproduced by an enormous number of devices. The narration of the events, however, seems to shatter into many contradictory ...