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the complete videos of “the re-appearing pheasant”: an encounter of american and italian poets and critics, new york, 11-12-13 nov 2022
https://slowforward.net/2025/08/30/r-_-the-complete-videos-of-the-re-appear
https://differx.noblogs.org/2025/08/30/the-complete-videos-of-the-re-appearing-pheasant-an-encounter-of-american-and-italian-poets-and-critics-new-york-11-12-13-nov-2022/
#SegnaliEAzioni #ZinesAuthors #ExperimentalWriting #ItalianLiterature #literature #TheReappearingPheasant

the complete videos of “the re-appearing pheasant”: an encounter of american and italian poets and critics, new york, 11-12-13 nov 2022
https://slowforward.net/2025/08/30/r-_-the-complete-videos-of-the-re-appear
https://differx.noblogs.org/2025/08/30/the-complete-videos-of-the-re-appearing-pheasant-an-encounter-of-american-and-italian-poets-and-critics-new-york-11-12-13-nov-2022/
#SegnaliEAzioni #ZinesAuthors #ExperimentalWriting #ItalianLiterature #literature #TheReappearingPheasant

the complete videos of “the re-appearing pheasant”: an encounter of american and italian poets and critics, new york, 11-12-13 nov 2022
https://slowforward.net/2025/08/30/r-_-the-complete-videos-of-the-re-appear
https://differx.noblogs.org/2025/08/30/the-complete-videos-of-the-re-appearing-pheasant-an-encounter-of-american-and-italian-poets-and-critics-new-york-11-12-13-nov-2022/
#SegnaliEAzioni #ZinesAuthors #ExperimentalWriting #ItalianLiterature #literature #TheReappearingPheasant

the complete videos of “the re-appearing pheasant”: an encounter of american and italian poets and critics, new york, 11-12-13 nov 2022
https://slowforward.net/2025/08/30/r-_-the-complete-videos-of-the-re-appear
https://differx.noblogs.org/2025/08/30/the-complete-videos-of-the-re-appearing-pheasant-an-encounter-of-american-and-italian-poets-and-critics-new-york-11-12-13-nov-2022/
#SegnaliEAzioni #ZinesAuthors #ExperimentalWriting #ItalianLiterature #literature #TheReappearingPheasant

the complete videos of “the re-appearing pheasant”: an encounter of american and italian poets and critics, new york, 11-12-13 nov 2022
https://slowforward.net/2025/08/30/r-_-the-complete-videos-of-the-re-appear
https://differx.noblogs.org/2025/08/30/the-complete-videos-of-the-re-appearing-pheasant-an-encounter-of-american-and-italian-poets-and-critics-new-york-11-12-13-nov-2022/
#SegnaliEAzioni #ZinesAuthors #ExperimentalWriting #ItalianLiterature #literature #TheReappearingPheasant

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A final discovery in my browsing of the TLS was the suggestion by Tim Parks that the much loved Neapolitan author known as Elena Ferrante might in fact be a man:

>>...in 2016, after the revelation that Ferrante's publisher had paid large sums of money to the translator Anita Raja, many people supposed, despite Raja's denials, that she was Ferrante, .... However, academic research has suggested a different story. Analysing an electronic corpus of 150 novels by forty contemporary Italian writers (including seven by Ferrante), a study in 2017 at Neuchatel University applied six "authorship attribution models"--essentially the comparison of stylistic attributes--in an attempt to solve the mystery. All six models turned up one writer, and one only, as consistently aligned with Ferrante: Domenico Starnone, Raja's husband. Born in Naples in 1943, he grew up in the city in the periods so intensely evoked in Ferrante's fiction. Raja was also born in Naples, but in 1953, and left at the age of three. Other corpus linguistics studies (for example by the distinguished linguist Michele Cortelazzo at Padua University) have produced the same result.

That there were similarities between Ferrante's fiction and Starnone's was already widely acknowledged....<<

https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A839229805/AONE?u=txshrpub100020&sid=bookmark-AONE&xid=24b49f5b

I haven't read any Elena Ferrante, but I wonder if some admirers of the novels will be upset by this suggestion. Part of me thinks such a discovery should not make any difference to a reading of the novels, but another part of me thinks that just as our evaluation of a supposedly baroque musical piece might change if we discovered it had been composed in the 20th century, so readers might be similarly entitled to change their evaluation of the Neapolitan novels on learning of the author's identity. I'm not sure though...

Sorry, by the way, if this is all old news to Elena Ferrante readers.

#Books #Literature #ItalianLiterature #ElenaFerrante #DomenicoStarnone #TimParks

🧵 3/3

A final discovery in my browsing of the TLS was the suggestion by Tim Parks that the much loved Neapolitan author known as Elena Ferrante might in fact be a man:

>>...in 2016, after the revelation that Ferrante's publisher had paid large sums of money to the translator Anita Raja, many people supposed, despite Raja's denials, that she was Ferrante, .... However, academic research has suggested a different story. Analysing an electronic corpus of 150 novels by forty contemporary Italian writers (including seven by Ferrante), a study in 2017 at Neuchatel University applied six "authorship attribution models"--essentially the comparison of stylistic attributes--in an attempt to solve the mystery. All six models turned up one writer, and one only, as consistently aligned with Ferrante: Domenico Starnone, Raja's husband. Born in Naples in 1943, he grew up in the city in the periods so intensely evoked in Ferrante's fiction. Raja was also born in Naples, but in 1953, and left at the age of three. Other corpus linguistics studies (for example by the distinguished linguist Michele Cortelazzo at Padua University) have produced the same result.

That there were similarities between Ferrante's fiction and Starnone's was already widely acknowledged....<<

https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A839229805/AONE?u=txshrpub100020&sid=bookmark-AONE&xid=24b49f5b

I haven't read any Elena Ferrante, but I wonder if some admirers of the novels will be upset by this suggestion. Part of me thinks such a discovery should not make any difference to a reading of the novels, but another part of me thinks that just as our evaluation of a supposedly baroque musical piece might change if we discovered it had been composed in the 20th century, so readers might be similarly entitled to change their evaluation of the Neapolitan novels on learning of the author's identity. I'm not sure though...

Sorry, by the way, if this is all old news to Elena Ferrante readers.

#Books #Literature #ItalianLiterature #ElenaFerrante #DomenicoStarnone #TimParks

🧵 3/3

A final discovery in my browsing of the TLS was the suggestion by Tim Parks that the much loved Neapolitan author known as Elena Ferrante might in fact be a man:

>>...in 2016, after the revelation that Ferrante's publisher had paid large sums of money to the translator Anita Raja, many people supposed, despite Raja's denials, that she was Ferrante, .... However, academic research has suggested a different story. Analysing an electronic corpus of 150 novels by forty contemporary Italian writers (including seven by Ferrante), a study in 2017 at Neuchatel University applied six "authorship attribution models"--essentially the comparison of stylistic attributes--in an attempt to solve the mystery. All six models turned up one writer, and one only, as consistently aligned with Ferrante: Domenico Starnone, Raja's husband. Born in Naples in 1943, he grew up in the city in the periods so intensely evoked in Ferrante's fiction. Raja was also born in Naples, but in 1953, and left at the age of three. Other corpus linguistics studies (for example by the distinguished linguist Michele Cortelazzo at Padua University) have produced the same result.

That there were similarities between Ferrante's fiction and Starnone's was already widely acknowledged....<<

https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A839229805/AONE?u=txshrpub100020&sid=bookmark-AONE&xid=24b49f5b

I haven't read any Elena Ferrante, but I wonder if some admirers of the novels will be upset by this suggestion. Part of me thinks such a discovery should not make any difference to a reading of the novels, but another part of me thinks that just as our evaluation of a supposedly baroque musical piece might change if we discovered it had been composed in the 20th century, so readers might be similarly entitled to change their evaluation of the Neapolitan novels on learning of the author's identity. I'm not sure though...

Sorry, by the way, if this is all old news to Elena Ferrante readers.

#Books #Literature #ItalianLiterature #ElenaFerrante #DomenicoStarnone #TimParks

🧵 3/3

A final discovery in my browsing of the TLS was the suggestion by Tim Parks that the much loved Neapolitan author known as Elena Ferrante might in fact be a man:

>>...in 2016, after the revelation that Ferrante's publisher had paid large sums of money to the translator Anita Raja, many people supposed, despite Raja's denials, that she was Ferrante, .... However, academic research has suggested a different story. Analysing an electronic corpus of 150 novels by forty contemporary Italian writers (including seven by Ferrante), a study in 2017 at Neuchatel University applied six "authorship attribution models"--essentially the comparison of stylistic attributes--in an attempt to solve the mystery. All six models turned up one writer, and one only, as consistently aligned with Ferrante: Domenico Starnone, Raja's husband. Born in Naples in 1943, he grew up in the city in the periods so intensely evoked in Ferrante's fiction. Raja was also born in Naples, but in 1953, and left at the age of three. Other corpus linguistics studies (for example by the distinguished linguist Michele Cortelazzo at Padua University) have produced the same result.

That there were similarities between Ferrante's fiction and Starnone's was already widely acknowledged....<<

https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A839229805/AONE?u=txshrpub100020&sid=bookmark-AONE&xid=24b49f5b

I haven't read any Elena Ferrante, but I wonder if some admirers of the novels will be upset by this suggestion. Part of me thinks such a discovery should not make any difference to a reading of the novels, but another part of me thinks that just as our evaluation of a supposedly baroque musical piece might change if we discovered it had been composed in the 20th century, so readers might be similarly entitled to change their evaluation of the Neapolitan novels on learning of the author's identity. I'm not sure though...

Sorry, by the way, if this is all old news to Elena Ferrante readers.

#Books #Literature #ItalianLiterature #ElenaFerrante #DomenicoStarnone #TimParks

🧵 3/3

A final discovery in my browsing of the TLS was the suggestion by Tim Parks that the much loved Neapolitan author known as Elena Ferrante might in fact be a man:

>>...in 2016, after the revelation that Ferrante's publisher had paid large sums of money to the translator Anita Raja, many people supposed, despite Raja's denials, that she was Ferrante, .... However, academic research has suggested a different story. Analysing an electronic corpus of 150 novels by forty contemporary Italian writers (including seven by Ferrante), a study in 2017 at Neuchatel University applied six "authorship attribution models"--essentially the comparison of stylistic attributes--in an attempt to solve the mystery. All six models turned up one writer, and one only, as consistently aligned with Ferrante: Domenico Starnone, Raja's husband. Born in Naples in 1943, he grew up in the city in the periods so intensely evoked in Ferrante's fiction. Raja was also born in Naples, but in 1953, and left at the age of three. Other corpus linguistics studies (for example by the distinguished linguist Michele Cortelazzo at Padua University) have produced the same result.

That there were similarities between Ferrante's fiction and Starnone's was already widely acknowledged....<<

https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A839229805/AONE?u=txshrpub100020&sid=bookmark-AONE&xid=24b49f5b

I haven't read any Elena Ferrante, but I wonder if some admirers of the novels will be upset by this suggestion. Part of me thinks such a discovery should not make any difference to a reading of the novels, but another part of me thinks that just as our evaluation of a supposedly baroque musical piece might change if we discovered it had been composed in the 20th century, so readers might be similarly entitled to change their evaluation of the Neapolitan novels on learning of the author's identity. I'm not sure though...

Sorry, by the way, if this is all old news to Elena Ferrante readers.

#Books #Literature #ItalianLiterature #ElenaFerrante #DomenicoStarnone #TimParks

A book about the relationship between a moral, hard-working, serious, average-looking, respected, and unloved good brother and a good-looking, mischievous, immoral, feckless, happy, and popular bad brother.
Unsophisticated and simplistic, but still interesting and readable.

Gli Onesti, Bonaventura Tecchi

7/10

#italianliterature #Bonaventura #bookstodon #libriitaliani

A book about the relationship between a moral, hard-working, serious, average-looking, respected, and unloved good brother and a good-looking, mischievous, immoral, feckless, happy, and popular bad brother.
Unsophisticated and simplistic, but still interesting and readable.

Gli Onesti, Bonaventura Tecchi

7/10

#italianliterature #Bonaventura #bookstodon #libriitaliani

A book about the relationship between a moral, hard-working, serious, average-looking, respected, and unloved good brother and a good-looking, mischievous, immoral, feckless, happy, and popular bad brother.
Unsophisticated and simplistic, but still interesting and readable.

Gli Onesti, Bonaventura Tecchi

7/10

#italianliterature #Bonaventura #bookstodon #libriitaliani

A book about the relationship between a moral, hard-working, serious, average-looking, respected, and unloved good brother and a good-looking, mischievous, immoral, feckless, happy, and popular bad brother.
Unsophisticated and simplistic, but still interesting and readable.

Gli Onesti, Bonaventura Tecchi

7/10

#italianliterature #Bonaventura #bookstodon #libriitaliani

I just saw Netflix's new trailer for 'The Decameron', which is my favourite Italian literature masterpiece since forever, and my gut tells me that it is another Hollywood's butchery and ridicule of a culture that US producers and writers are unable to engage with but see some sex and some fun of the church so why not turning it into a sex and alcohol 14-century Lord of the Flies horror show.

#Decameron #ItalianLiterature #Netflix

I just saw Netflix's new trailer for 'The Decameron', which is my favourite Italian literature masterpiece since forever, and my gut tells me that it is another Hollywood's butchery and ridicule of a culture that US producers and writers are unable to engage with but see some sex and some fun of the church so why not turning it into a sex and alcohol 14-century Lord of the Flies horror show.

#Decameron #ItalianLiterature #Netflix

I just saw Netflix's new trailer for 'The Decameron', which is my favourite Italian literature masterpiece since forever, and my gut tells me that it is another Hollywood's butchery and ridicule of a culture that US producers and writers are unable to engage with but see some sex and some fun of the church so why not turning it into a sex and alcohol 14-century Lord of the Flies horror show.

#Decameron #ItalianLiterature #Netflix

I just saw Netflix's new trailer for 'The Decameron', which is my favourite Italian literature masterpiece since forever, and my gut tells me that it is another Hollywood's butchery and ridicule of a culture that US producers and writers are unable to engage with but see some sex and some fun of the church so why not turning it into a sex and alcohol 14-century Lord of the Flies horror show.

#Decameron #ItalianLiterature #Netflix

I just saw Netflix's new trailer for 'The Decameron', which is my favourite Italian literature masterpiece since forever, and my gut tells me that it is another Hollywood's butchery and ridicule of a culture that US producers and writers are unable to engage with but see some sex and some fun of the church so why not turning it into a sex and alcohol 14-century Lord of the Flies horror show.

#Decameron #ItalianLiterature #Netflix

"The Quiet Exhilaration of Reading in Italian."

#Culture #Literature #Italy #ItalianLiterature

https://themillions.com/2023/11/the-quiet-exhilaration-of-reading-in-italian.html

"The Quiet Exhilaration of Reading in Italian."

#Culture #Literature #Italy #ItalianLiterature

https://themillions.com/2023/11/the-quiet-exhilaration-of-reading-in-italian.html

"The Quiet Exhilaration of Reading in Italian."

#Culture #Literature #Italy #ItalianLiterature

https://themillions.com/2023/11/the-quiet-exhilaration-of-reading-in-italian.html

A sneak peek at cover proofs of two Dino Buzzati books coming this spring—ranging from the painfully real story of A Love Affair (tr. Joseph Green) to the absurd magical realism of The Stronghold (tr. Lawrence Venuti; previously translated as The Tartar Steppe).
#dinobuzzati #italianliterature #italianliteratureintranslation #vintageillustration #lawrencevenuti

Coming this spring, a new novel by Bernardo Zannoni, a wunderkind of contemporary Italian lit. The story is told from the pov of a beech marten who is sold to a fox by his mother, learns to read, and finds God. #philosophicalnovels #ItalianLiterature #ItalianLiteratureInTranslation #InternationalFiction #LiteratureInTranslation #martens

New Yorker: The Novelist Who Inspired Elena Ferrante https://www.newyorker.com/books/under-review/the-novelist-who-inspired-elena-ferrante #NewYorker #Books/UnderReview #ItalianLiterature #BenitoMussolini #SecondWorldWar #ElenaFerrante #Fascism #Novels

New Yorker: The Novelist Who Inspired Elena Ferrante https://www.newyorker.com/books/under-review/the-novelist-who-inspired-elena-ferrante #NewYorker #Books/UnderReview #ItalianLiterature #BenitoMussolini #SecondWorldWar #ElenaFerrante #Fascism #Novels

New Yorker: The Novelist Who Inspired Elena Ferrante https://www.newyorker.com/books/under-review/the-novelist-who-inspired-elena-ferrante #NewYorker #Books/UnderReview #ItalianLiterature #BenitoMussolini #SecondWorldWar #ElenaFerrante #Fascism #Novels

New Yorker: The Novelist Who Inspired Elena Ferrante https://www.newyorker.com/books/under-review/the-novelist-who-inspired-elena-ferrante #NewYorker #Books/UnderReview #ItalianLiterature #BenitoMussolini #SecondWorldWar #ElenaFerrante #Fascism #Novels

Coming this spring, a new novel by Bernardo Zannoni, a wunderkind of contemporary Italian lit. The story is told from the pov of a beech marten who is sold to a fox by his mother, learns to read, and finds God. #philosophicalnovels #ItalianLiterature #ItalianLiteratureInTranslation #InternationalFiction #LiteratureInTranslation #martens

Coming this spring, a new novel by Bernardo Zannoni, a wunderkind of contemporary Italian lit. The story is told from the pov of a beech marten who is sold to a fox by his mother, learns to read, and finds God. #philosophicalnovels #ItalianLiterature #ItalianLiteratureInTranslation #InternationalFiction #LiteratureInTranslation #martens

Coming this spring, a new novel by Bernardo Zannoni, a wunderkind of contemporary Italian lit. The story is told from the pov of a beech marten who is sold to a fox by his mother, learns to read, and finds God. #philosophicalnovels #ItalianLiterature #ItalianLiteratureInTranslation #InternationalFiction #LiteratureInTranslation #martens

Coming this spring, a new novel by Bernardo Zannoni, a wunderkind of contemporary Italian lit. The story is told from the pov of a beech marten who is sold to a fox by his mother, learns to read, and finds God. #philosophicalnovels #ItalianLiterature #ItalianLiteratureInTranslation #InternationalFiction #LiteratureInTranslation #martens

New Yorker: A Diary’s Unwanted Insights https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/a-diarys-unwanted-insights #NewYorker #Books/Page-Turner #ItalianLiterature #Literature #Fiction #Diaries #Novels

A sneak peek at cover proofs of two Dino Buzzati books coming this spring—ranging from the painfully real story of A Love Affair (tr. Joseph Green) to the absurd magical realism of The Stronghold (tr. Lawrence Venuti; previously translated as The Tartar Steppe).
#dinobuzzati #italianliterature #italianliteratureintranslation #vintageillustration #lawrencevenuti

A sneak peek at cover proofs of two Dino Buzzati books coming this spring—ranging from the painfully real story of A Love Affair (tr. Joseph Green) to the absurd magical realism of The Stronghold (tr. Lawrence Venuti; previously translated as The Tartar Steppe).
#dinobuzzati #italianliterature #italianliteratureintranslation #vintageillustration #lawrencevenuti

A sneak peek at cover proofs of two Dino Buzzati books coming this spring—ranging from the painfully real story of A Love Affair (tr. Joseph Green) to the absurd magical realism of The Stronghold (tr. Lawrence Venuti; previously translated as The Tartar Steppe).
#dinobuzzati #italianliterature #italianliteratureintranslation #vintageillustration #lawrencevenuti

A sneak peek at cover proofs of two Dino Buzzati books coming this spring—ranging from the painfully real story of A Love Affair (tr. Joseph Green) to the absurd magical realism of The Stronghold (tr. Lawrence Venuti; previously translated as The Tartar Steppe).
#dinobuzzati #italianliterature #italianliteratureintranslation #vintageillustration #lawrencevenuti

Abend zu #Manganelli am Italienischen Kulturinstitut #Berlin mit @italzen || @litstudies #italianists #italianstudies #litstudies #italianliterature https://mastodon.social/@italzen/109365410209928162

Abend zu #Manganelli am Italienischen Kulturinstitut #Berlin mit @italzen || @litstudies #italianists #italianstudies #litstudies #italianliterature https://mastodon.social/@italzen/109365410209928162

Abend zu #Manganelli am Italienischen Kulturinstitut #Berlin mit @italzen || @litstudies #italianists #italianstudies #litstudies #italianliterature https://mastodon.social/@italzen/109365410209928162