Kafka's Italian progeny Ziolkowski, Saskia Elizabeth 1979- creator author. text bibliography Criticism, interpretation, etc. onc 2020 monographic eng print ix, 302 pages ; 24 cm. "While many scholars of world literature view national literary traditions as resolved and stable, Kafka's Italian Progeny takes the fluid identity of the modern Italian tradition as an opportunity to reconsider its dimensions and influencers. Exploring a distinct but unexamined Kafkan tradition in modern Italian literature, the book both brings Italian literary works into larger debates in which and reorients the critical view of the Italian literary landscape. This book calls attention to the way Kafkan themes, narrative strategies, and formal experimentation appear in a range of Italian authors. Offering new perspectives on familiar figures, such as Italo Calvino, Italo Svevo, and Elena Ferrante, it also sheds light on some less well-known authors, including Tommaso Landolfi, Paola Capriolo, and Lalla Romano. Using diverse approaches to explore thematic, generic, historical, and cultural connections between Kafka's works and those of Italian authors, the chapters argue for a new view of Italian literature that includes talking animals, parental bonds, modernist realism, literary detective novels, and lyrical microfiction. Whereas Kafka has been mobilized in discourses on minor and world literature, this book investigates the particular nature of the Italian reception of Kafka to reveal the richness and variety of modern Italian literature."-- Saskia Elizabeth Ziolkowski. Includes bibliographical references and index. Kafka, Franz 1883-1924 Influence Kafka, Franz 1883-1924 Criticism and interpretation Kafka, Franz 1883-1924 Italian literature 20th century History and criticism Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) Italian literature 1900-1999 fast PQ4087 .Z56 2020 850.9/0091 cci1icc Toronto Italian studies 9781487506308 1487506309 NLC 190802 20200212090009.0 in00004156284 eng