La musa sotto i portici : caffè e provincia nella narrativa di Piero Chiara e Lucio Mastronardi / Stefano Giannini.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Giannini, Stefano.

Series:

Italianistica nel mondo (Florence, Italy) ; 2. ser., 2.

Italianistica nel mondo ; 2. ser., 2

Language:

Italian

Subjects (All):

Chiara, Piero--Criticism and interpretation.

Chiara, Piero.

Mastronardi, Lucio, 1930---Criticism and interpretation.

Mastronardi, Lucio.

Mastronardi, Lucio, 1930-.

Bars (Drinking establishments) in literature.

Criticism and interpretation.

Lombardy (Italy)--In literature.

Lombardy (Italy).

Physical Description:

236 pages ; 21 cm.

Place of Publication:

Firenze : M. Pagliai, [2008]

Summary:

Stefano Gianni examines the works of Piero Chiara and Lucio Mastronadi through a topos of early twentieth-century Italian culture: the popular, provincial café. For both authors, the café was a zone of free expression, where protagonists could earn respect and superiority with only their intelligence and will. Chiara and Mastronardi's tales of cafés in Lombardy demonstrate the narrative richness of an apparently poor province, and ultimately the importance the authors ascribe to storytelling as both a personal need and moral activity.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [223]-236).

ISBN:

9788856400472 :

OCLC:

308152086