Postmodern Italian Fiction: The Crisis of Reason in Calvino, Eco, Sciascia, Malerba

by Joann Cannon

A study of the work of four of Italy's most highly acclaimed and influential contemporary writers: Italo Calvino, Leonardo Sciascia, Umberto Eco, and Luigi Malerba. It traces the features that mark these texts as postmodern and explores the question of indeterminacy.

139 pages, Hardcover

First published June 1, 1989