FRENCH & AMERICAN EXCHANGES IN MODERN ITALIAN LIT. (CL2056)

Offers a sampling of modern and contemporary Italian masters beginning with early modern drama, prose, and poetry. Concentrates on selections from 20th-century poetry and short fiction, with an emphasis on Italian authors who wrote partly in France or in French (Goldoni, Casanova, Leopardi, Ungaretti) or were influenced by America and its literature (Moravia, Pavese, Calvino).