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After years of obscurity, Anna Maria Ortese (1914-1998) is emerging as one of the most important Italian authors of the twentieth-century, taking her place alongside such luminaries as Italo Calvino, Primo Levi, and Elsa Morante. Anna Maria Ortese: Celestial Geographies features a selection of essays by established Ortese scholars that trace her remarkable creative trajectory. Bringing a wide range of critical perspectives to Ortese's work, the contributors to this collection map the author's complex textual geography, with its overlapping literary genres, forms, and conceptual categories, and the rhetorical and narrative strategies that pervade Ortese's many types of writing. The essays are complemented by material translated here for the first time: Ortese's unpublished letters to her mentor, the writer Massimo Bontempelli; and an extended interview with Ortese by fellow Italian novelist Dacia Maraini.

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9781442649002

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‘This sumptuously produced, skillfully edited collection of essays will help bring Ortese’s work to the large audience it undoubtedly deserves…. Highly recommended.’ -- S. Botterill * Choice Magazine vol 53:03:2015 * ‘For both its depth and breadth, Annovi’s book is a magnificent achievement.’ -- Lucia Re * Forum Italicum vol 51:03:2017 *

'This sumptuously produced, skillfully edited collection of essays will help bring Ortese's work to the large audience it undoubtedly deserves... Highly recommended.' -- S. Botterill Choice Magazine vol 53:03:2015

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Gian Maria Annovi is an assistant professor in the Department of French and Italian at the University of Southern California. Flora Ghezzo teaches Italian literature at La Scuola D’Italia in New York City.

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