Giraffes in the Garden of Italian Literature

Deborah Amberson

earliest edition we have, 2017 Taylor and Francis, 2017 186 pages

"Writing in 1926, Carlo Emilio Gadda (1893-1973) acknowledges his peculiarity within the Italian literary field by describing himself as a giraffe or a kangaroo in Italy's beautiful garden of literature. Gadda's self-characterization as exotic and even ungainly animal applies in equal measure to Italo Svevo (1861-1928) and Federigo Tozzi (1883-1920), authors who, like Gadda, thwarted efforts at critical classificatio...

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Giraffes in the Garden of Italian Literature edition · 2020 · Taylor & Francis Group · 186 pages · 9780367602536
Giraffes in the Garden of Italian Literature edition · 2017 · Taylor & Francis Group · 9781351192620
Giraffes in the Garden of Italian Literature edition · 2017 · Taylor & Francis Group · 9781351192613
Giraffes in the Garden of Italian Literature edition · 2017 · Taylor & Francis Group · 186 pages · 9781351192606
Giraffes in the Garden of Italian Literature edition · 2017 · Taylor and Francis · 186 pages · 9781351192637

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