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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 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%