A test of powers : writings on criticism and literary institutions / Franco Fortini ; translated by Alberto Toscano.

Author
Fortini, Franco, 1917-1994 [Browse]
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Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
London : Seagull Books, 2016.
Description
460 pages ; 24 cm.

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    Includes bibliographical references.
    Language note
    Translated from the second Italian edition, published in 1969, titled: Verifica dei poteri : scritti di critica e di istituzioni letterarie.
    Contents
    • Translator's introduction: the labour of division
    • Translator's acknowledgements
    • Preface to the first edition (1965)
    • Preface to the second edition (1969)
    • The literary institution. Eroticism and literature
    • A test of powers
    • Clarifications
    • Cunning as doves
    • Literary institutions and the progress of the regime
    • Two avant-gardes
    • Avant-garde and mediation
    • Written and spoken
    • The condition of the guest. Radek's hands
    • The writers' mandate and the end of anti-fascism
    • In defence of the idiot
    • Of some critics. Reading Spitzer
    • Mimesis
    • Deus absconditus
    • Lukács in Italy
    • The young Lukács
    • The passage of joy
    • For some books. For Herzen
    • Rereading Pasternak
    • Notes on Proust
    • Tolstoy, the master and the man
    • Kafka's men and the criticism of things
    • Two returns
    • Brecht or the talking horse
    • The Chinese spectre.
    ISBN
    • 9780857423351
    • 0857423355
    LCCN
    2018411176
    OCLC
    921865715
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