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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fortini, Franco, 1917-1994, author.

Contributor:

Toscano, Alberto, 1977- translator.

Series:

Italian list

The Italian list

Standardized Title:

Verifica dei poteri. English

Language:

English

Italian

Subjects (All):

Literature, Modern--20th century.

Literature, Modern.

Criticism.

Physical Description:

460 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

London : Seagull Books, 2016.

Language Note:

Translated from the second Italian edition, published in 1969, titled: Verifica dei poteri : scritti di critica e di istituzioni letterarie.

Contents:

Part I The Literary Institution

I Eroticism and Literature 85

II A Test of Powers 93

III Clarifications 115

IV Cunning as Doves 125

V Literary Institutions and the Progress of the Regime 151

VI Two Avant-gardes 159

VII Avant-garde and Mediation 175

VIII Written and Spoken 189

Part II The Condition of the Guest

I Radek's Hands 197

II The Writers' Mandate and the End of Anti-Fascism 214

III In Defence of the Idiot 270

Part III Of Some Critics

I Reading Spitzer 283

II Mimesis 302

III Deus Absconditus 311

IV Lukács in Italy 319

V The Young Lukács 354

VI The Passage of Joy 360

Part IV For Some Books

I For Herzen 371

II Rereading Pasternak 377

III Notes on Proust 398

IV Tolstoy, the Master and the Man 412

V Kafka's Men and the Criticism of Things 418

VI Two Returns 427

VII Brecht or the Talking Horse 435

VIII The Chinese Spectre 455.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Other Format:

Translation of (work): Fortini, Franco. Verifica dei poteri.

ISBN:

9780857423351

0857423355

OCLC:

921865715