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A test of powers : writings on criticism and literary institutions / Franco Fortini ; translated by Alberto Toscano.
Author
Fortini, Franco, 1917-1994
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Uniform title
Verifica dei poteri.
English
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Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
London : Seagull Books, 2016.
Description
460 pages ; 24 cm.
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Firestone Library - Stacks
PN775 .F59713 2016
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Subject(s)
Literature, Modern
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20th century
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Criticism
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Translator
Toscano, Alberto, 1977-
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Series
Italian list
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Contains
Fortini, Franco, 1917-1994.
Verifica dei poteri : scritti di critica e di istituzioni letterarie.
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Bibliographic references
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.
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ISBN
9780857423351
0857423355
LCCN
2018411176
OCLC
921865715
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