Dear Bianca Maria,
The starting point for your project is probably James Joyce and then T. S.
Eliot's Criterion, where Svevo's novels were reviewed.
A Svevo-Joyce exhibition opens at the Museo Svevo in Trieste on Bloomsday.
It has always seemed to me that Jewishness is am important factor in
Svevo's relatively greater success in the States.
Buon lavoro,
Brian Moloney
On Tue, 25 May 1999 [log in to unmask] wrote:
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> My name is Bianca Maria Manfredi. I am a student at the University of Parma
> majoring in Contemporary Italian Literature.
> Presently, I am working at my final thesis that concerns Italo Svevo's
> Fortune in the United States, and, more in general, in English-speaking
> countries.
> I am trying to get information about his english and american editors, i.e.
> Hogarth Press, and the reason why they decided to publish him (considering
> Hogarth Press was managed by Leonard and Virginia Woolf this seems quite
> relevant).
> I also studied the work of Pier Vittorio Tondelli (I published an essay
> drawing a parallel between Tondelli and Jay McInerney, which had originally
> been presented during a meeting about the italian novelist); and took part
> in the realisation of a multi-medial happening based on Italo Calvino's
> books.
> I am trying to give my studies a comparative perspective, considering more
> than one language, literature and culture to be important in the
> comprehension of events.
> And to pay my bills I work freelance for "La Gazzetta di Parma", the oldest
> italian newspaper.
> I hope we will have interesting exchanges of opinions and suggestions.
>
> Yours
> Bianca Maria Manfredi
>
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