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Franco Moretti

Born

in Rome, Italy

December 26, 1950

Website

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Genre

Nonfiction, Literature & Fiction, Philosophy

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Franco Moretti is an Italian literary scholar, trained as a Marxist critic, whose work focuses on the history of the novel as a "planetary form". He has written five books, Signs Taken for Wonders (1983), The Way of the World (1987), Modern Epic (1995), Atlas of the European Novel, 1800-1900 (1998), and Graphs, Maps, Trees: Abstract Models for a Literary History (2005). His recent work is notable for importing, not without controversy, quantitative methods from the social sciences into domains that have traditionally belonged to the humanities. To date, his books have been translated into fifteen languages.

Moretti has recently edited a five-volume encyclopedia of the novel, entitled Il Romanzo (2004), featuring articles by a wide range of e ...more

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	Graphs, Maps, Trees: Abstract Models for a Literary History by Franco Moretti, Alberto Piazza (Afterword) 3.68 avg rating — 708 ratings — published 2005 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Distant Reading 3.81 avg rating — 283 ratings — published 2013 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Bourgeois: Between History and Literature 4.08 avg rating — 222 ratings — published 2013 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Atlas of the European Novel 1800-1900 3.96 avg rating — 226 ratings — published 1997 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Way of the World: The Bildungsroman in European Culture by Franco Moretti, Albert Sbragia 4.02 avg rating — 160 ratings — published 1986 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Signs Taken for Wonders: On the Sociology of Literary Forms by Franco Moretti, Susan Fischer (Translator), David Forgacs (Translator) 4.04 avg rating — 126 ratings — published 1987 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Modern Epic: The World System from Goethe to Garcia Marquez by Franco Moretti, Quintin Hoare (Translator) 4.10 avg rating — 98 ratings — published 1994 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Far Country: Scenes from American Culture 3.60 avg rating — 84 ratings — published 2019 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Novel, Volume 1: History, Geography, and Culture 4.27 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 2001 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Falso Movimento - La svolta quantitativa nello studio della letteratura 4.05 avg rating — 19 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Il romanzo (5 books)
by

Franco Moretti (Editor),

Pier Vincenzo Mengaldo (Editor),

Ernesto Franco (Editor)

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“Reading ‘more’ is always a good thing, but not the solution.”
― Franco Moretti, Distant Reading

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“What can I do, I like Balzac better than Dickens, forgive me.”
― Franco Moretti

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“Literature is the fragment of fragments’, wrote Goethe in Wilhelm Meister’s Years of Wandering, the great sad novel of his old age: ‘the least part of all that ever happened and was spoken was written down, and of what was written only the least part has survived . . .’.”
― Franco Moretti, Distant Reading

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