Cesare Segre bol taliansky filológ, sémiotik a literárny kritik židovského pôvodu. Pôsobil ako riaditeľ Výskumného centra pre texty a textové tradície na Inštitúte pokročilých štúdií v Pávii. Jeho práca sa sústredila na hlbokú analýzu literárnych textov a ich vývoja.
Kniha je jedným z najsilnejších svedectiev o koncentračných táboroch vôbec. Sila Leviho svedectva tkvie v tom, že svoju knihu začal písať ešte v Osvienčime a dopísal ju krátko po návrate do Talianska. Zachytil výhradne udalosti, ktoré sám zažil.
Natalia Ginzburg wrote her masterful, Strega Prize winning novel Family Lexicon while living in London in the 1960s. Homesick for her big, noisy Italian family, she summoned them in this novel, which is a celebration of the routines and rituals, in-jokes and insults and, above all, the repeated sayings that make up every family. The father, Giuseppe Levi, is a Jewish scientist, consumed by his work and a mania for hiking. Impatient and intractable, he is constantly at odds with his impressionable and wistful wife Lidia - yet he cannot be without her. Together they preside over their five children in a house filled with argument and activity, books and politics, visitors, friends and famous faces. But as their children grow up against the backdrop of Mussolini's Italy, the Levi household must become not only a home - but a stronghold against fascism. Intimate, enchanting and comedic, Family Lexicon is an unforgettable novel about memory, language, and the lasting power that family holds over all of us
Originally published in 1963, and today considered a landmark in twentieth
century Italian literature, Luigi Meneghello's Deliver Us is the memoir, not
of an extraordinary childhood, but of the very ordinary one the author shared
with most of his generation, when Italy was a rural country under the twin
authorities of Church and Fascism.
InhaltsverzeichnisInhalt: I. Zur Semiotik des Mittelalters: Die Erfindung des > Jenseits<. - Vier Typen mittelalterlichen Wahnsinns. - Was Bachtin nicht gesagt hat. Die mittelalterlichen Ursprünge des Romans. - Mittelalterliche Texte lesen. - II. Zur Semiotik des Theaters: Ein Beitrag zur Theatersemiotik. - Narratologie und Theater. - Shakespeare und das Spiel en abyme. - Szenische Kommunikation bei Pirandello. - III. Literatursemiotik heute: Aufstieg und Niedergang der Stilistik. - Perspektive und Polyphonie in der Erzähltextanalyse. - Mögliche Welten und prophetische Welten in den Romanen Kafkas. - Der Fall Dora: Anamnese und Roman. - Literaturwissenschaft und Textualität. - Hermeneutik und Textkritik. - Hermeneutik und Strukturen der Historie. - Körper und Grammatik. - Vom Chronotopos zum Rolandslied. - Nicht nur Dekonstruktivisten: drei amerikanische Literaturwissenschaftler. - Kanon und Kulturwissenschaft.