L’ammuina
- Vasco Pratolini,
- Edited by:
- Maria Carla Papini,
It was at the end of the 1940s that Vasco Pratolini began to conceive the project for that so-called "Neapolitan novel" which he pursued at least until January 1952. He repeatedly presented the novel as imminent to the Italian publisher Vallecchi. However, although it was conceived on several occasions and in different ways, it was never published. Perhaps, as novels go, it was never even written. Nevertheless, that project resurfaced and even came close to realization in the text of “L'ammuina”, the treatment Pratolini wrote for Nanni Loy’s film, The four days of Naples, in the early Sixties. L’Ammuina is yet another example of the writer's activity in the world of cinema and, over fifty years after its drafting and the film’s release, it takes on a completely independent dimension with respect to its original destination, so much so that it may appear as Pratolini's "Neapolitan novel", the one the author of Cronache di poveri amanti, of Metello, Lo scialo, Allegoria e derisione, and of many other novels and stories which have brought prestige to the Italian prose, had longed for, and which now shows, albeit in another form, in the pages of L’Ammuina.
- DOI: 10.36253/978-88-6453-529-6
- Series: Moderna/Comparata
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- Language: Italian
- Subjects: Linguistic Literature
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University of Florence, Italy - ORCID: 0000-0002-4053-1696
M. C. Papini is a former Full Professor of Modern and Contemporary Italian literature at the University of Florence, and has taught in various European and non-European universities. She has studied the Italian Crepuscular poets and avant-garde. She is an expert on Volponi and Ungaretti, and has analysed the fiction and poetry of the 20th century, identifying their relationship with painting, music and cinema. She has authored essays on Savinio, De Chirico and Soffici, as well as studies on opera libretti. She has introduced and edited the correspondence between Ungaretti and Nono, as well as the texts on cinema by Palazzeschi and Anna Banti. In 2013, she organized the conference on Vasco Pratolini.
- Publication Year: 2017
- Pages: 152
- eISBN: 978-88-6453-529-6
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- Publication Year: 2017
- eISBN: 978-88-6453-530-2
- Content License: CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
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- Publication Year: 2017
- Pages: 152
- ISBN: 978-88-6453-528-9
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- Publication Year: 2017
- eISBN: 978-88-9273-301-5
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Book Title
L’ammuina
Editors
Maria Carla Papini
Authors
Vasco Pratolini
Peer Reviewed
Number of Pages
152
Publication Year
2017
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© 2017 Author(s)
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Publisher Name
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/978-88-6453-529-6
ISBN Print
978-88-6453-528-9
eISBN (pdf)
978-88-6453-529-6
eISBN (epub)
978-88-6453-530-2
eISBN (xml)
978-88-9273-301-5
Series Title
Moderna/Comparata
Series ISSN
2704-5641
Series E-ISSN
2704-565X
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