Martin McLaughlin

• 1. Introduction General Issues and Signal Cases 2. The Public and the Private in Modern Italian Literature: The Case of Montale 3. The Battle of the Biographers: Primo Levi and 'Life—Writing' D'Annunzio and Other Fin de siècle 4. Enrico Nencioni: An Italian Victorian 5. Pescara and the Abruzzo in the Imagination of Gabriele D'Annunzio 6. British Material for the Biography of a Tuscan: Llewelyn Lloyd (1879-1949) 7. Italo Svevo: Journalism and the Life of a Writer Self-Images in Fascist Culture 8. Intellectual (Auto-)Biography in Bontempelli 9. Italian War—Correspondents and The Spanish Civil War: Propaganda and Autobiography Autobiographical Strains in Contemporary Italian Writing 10. Concessions to Autobiography in Calvino 11. Umberto Eco: Autobiography into Romance 12. The Dummy Interlocutor and Oriana Fallaci's Self-Projection in La rabbia e l'orgoglio

...succinct [and]clear...provides a facinating glimpse into the life histories, and the shaping of the life histories, by an eclectic group of Italians. Its chapters provide useful information on the less-known and engrossing new insights into familiar canonical figures -- Biography 32.3 (Summer 2009) Biography 32.3 (Summer 2009)

Martin McLaughlin

• 1. Introduction General Issues and Signal Cases 2. The Public and the Private in Modern Italian Literature: The Case of Montale 3. The Battle of the Biographers: Primo Levi and 'Life—Writing' D'Annunzio and Other Fin de siècle 4. Enrico Nencioni: An Italian Victorian 5. Pescara and the Abruzzo in the Imagination of Gabriele D'Annunzio 6. British Material for the Biography of a Tuscan: Llewelyn Lloyd (1879-1949) 7. Italo Svevo: Journalism and the Life of a Writer Self-Images in Fascist Culture 8. Intellectual (Auto-)Biography in Bontempelli 9. Italian War—Correspondents and The Spanish Civil War: Propaganda and Autobiography Autobiographical Strains in Contemporary Italian Writing 10. Concessions to Autobiography in Calvino 11. Umberto Eco: Autobiography into Romance 12. The Dummy Interlocutor and Oriana Fallaci's Self-Projection in La rabbia e l'orgoglio

...succinct [and]clear...provides a facinating glimpse into the life histories, and the shaping of the life histories, by an eclectic group of Italians. Its chapters provide useful information on the less-known and engrossing new insights into familiar canonical figures -- Biography 32.3 (Summer 2009) Biography 32.3 (Summer 2009)

Martin McLaughlin

• 1. Introduction General Issues and Signal Cases 2. The Public and the Private in Modern Italian Literature: The Case of Montale 3. The Battle of the Biographers: Primo Levi and 'Life—Writing' D'Annunzio and Other Fin de siècle 4. Enrico Nencioni: An Italian Victorian 5. Pescara and the Abruzzo in the Imagination of Gabriele D'Annunzio 6. British Material for the Biography of a Tuscan: Llewelyn Lloyd (1879-1949) 7. Italo Svevo: Journalism and the Life of a Writer Self-Images in Fascist Culture 8. Intellectual (Auto-)Biography in Bontempelli 9. Italian War—Correspondents and The Spanish Civil War: Propaganda and Autobiography Autobiographical Strains in Contemporary Italian Writing 10. Concessions to Autobiography in Calvino 11. Umberto Eco: Autobiography into Romance 12. The Dummy Interlocutor and Oriana Fallaci's Self-Projection in La rabbia e l'orgoglio

...succinct [and]clear...provides a facinating glimpse into the life histories, and the shaping of the life histories, by an eclectic group of Italians. Its chapters provide useful information on the less-known and engrossing new insights into familiar canonical figures -- Biography 32.3 (Summer 2009) Biography 32.3 (Summer 2009)