ORCID

0000-0001-6589-0997

Document Type

Article

Date

2009

Keywords

Luciano Bianciardi, Aprire il fuoco, Franco Fortini, false documents, intertextuality, social commitment, functions of literature, Milan, guerrilla warfare, rewriting past events

Language

English

Disciplines

Communication | East Asian Languages and Societies | English Language and Literature | European Languages and Societies | French and Francophone Language and Literature | German Language and Literature | Italian Language and Literature | Latin American Languages and Societies | Linguistics | Sign Languages | Slavic Languages and Societies | Spanish and Portuguese Language and Literature

Description/Abstract

This is the first article to assess the importance of Luciano Bianciardi’s last novel, Aprire il fuoco [Open Fire!](1969), a work often overlooked, that offers crucial insights into Bianciardi’s commitments to social causes. A so-called “irregular” of 20th-century Italian literary panorama, Luciano Bianciardi (1922-1971) in his Aprire il fuoco discusses his idea of literature as an activity that must aim at assuming the role of ethical guide in societies. In my article, I gloss the often obscure historical and literary references of the novel, and provide a critical assessment of its impact.

ISSN

0021-2954

Source

submission

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