Beckett Samuel - Gadda and Beckett: Storytelling, Subjectivity and Fracture

Editorial Committee

Professor Simon Gilson, University of Warwick (General Editor)

Dr Francesca Billiani, University of Manchester

Dr Manuele Gragnolati, Somerville College, Oxford

Dr Catherine Keen, University College London

Professor Martin McLaughlin, Magdalen College, Oxford

Founding Editors

Professor Zygmunt Baraski and Professor Anna Laura Lepschy

In the light of growing academic interest in Italy and the reorganization of many university courses in Italian along interdisciplinary lines, this book series, founded now continuing under the Legenda imprint, aims to bring together different scholarly perspectives on Italy and its culture. Italian Perspectives publishes books and collections of essays on any period of Italian literature, language, history, culture, politics, art, and media, as well as studies which take an interdisciplinary approach and are methodologically innovative.

APPEARING IN THIS SERIES

1. The Letters of Giacomo Leopardi 1817-1837, ed. by Prue Shaw

2. Nelle Carceri di G. B. Piranesi, by Silvia Gavuzzo-Stewart

3. Speculative Identities: Contemporary Italian Womens Narrative, by Rita Wilson

4. Elio Vittorini: The Writer and the Written, by Guido Bonsaver

5. Origin and Identity: Essays on Svevo and Trieste, by Elizabeth Schchter

6. Italo Calvino and the Landscape of Childhood, by Claudia Nocentini

7. Playing with Gender: The Comedies of Goldoni, by Maggie Gnsberg

8. Comedy and Culture: Cecco Angiolieris Poetry and Late Medieval Society, by Fabian Alfie

9. Fragments of Impegno, by Jennifer Burns

10. Contesting the Monument: The Anti-Illusionist Italian Historical Novel, by Ruth Glynn

11. Camorristi, Politicians and Businessmen, by Felia Allum

12. Speaking Out and Silencing, ed. by Anna Cento Bull and Adalgisa Giorgio

13. From Florence to the Heavenly City: The Poetry of Citizenship in Dante, by Claire E. Honess

14. Orality and Literacy in Modern Italian Culture, ed. by Michael Caesar and Marina Spunta

15. Pastoral Drama in Early Modern Italy: The Making of a New Genre, by Lisa Sampson

16. Sweet Thunder: Music and Libretti in 1960s Italy, by Vivienne Suvini-Hand

17. Il teatro di Eduardo De Filippo, by Donatella Fischer

18. Imagining Terrorism: The Rhetoric and Representation of Political Violence in Italy 19692009, ed. by Pierpaolo Antonello and Alan OLeary

19. Boccaccio and the Book: Production and Reading in Italy 1340-1520, by Rhiannon Daniels

20. Ugo Foscolo and English Culture, by Sandra Parmegiani

21. The Printed Media in Fin-de-sicle Italy: Publishers, Writers, and Readers, ed. by Ann Hallamore Caesar, Gabriella Romani, and Jennifer Burns

Managing Editor

Dr Graham Nelson, 41 Wellington Square, Oxford ox1 2jf, UK

www.legendabooks.com

I would like to extend my sincerest thanks to everyone who has supported me as a graduate student at Oxford, where this volume originated from, and as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Warwick, where most of the revisions were made. The thesis was made possible by a doctoral award from the Arts and Humanities Research Council, and the publication of this book has received support from the Leverhulme Trust and from the Humanities Research Fund, University of Warwick, for all of which I remain extremely grateful.

Special thanks are due to my DPhil supervisor, Giuseppe Stellardi, for sharing his knowledge and inspirational thoughts at every stage of my doctoral research. My thanks also go to Diego Zancani, for first introducing me to Gadda and for his support throughout my studies and early academic career. I would like to thank my fellow italianisti at both Oxford and Warwick for many seasons of intellectual exchange and social distraction, and in particular Emma Bond, who has been a remarkable friend and colleague since we first met as graduate students in Oxford. Thanks are also due to the Italian Department at Warwick, and especially to Ann Hallamore Caesar for her support and faith in my work throughout the past three years. Furthermore, I would like to thank my colleagues, and in particular those who have taken an interest in my work, namely Jenny Burns, Fabio Camilletti and Simon Gilson, for their infectious energy and many stimulating conversations.