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In Tempo e romanzo (1946), Pouillon sviluppa una originale teoria del romanzo pre-strutturalistica basata su esistenzialismo, psicologia e antropologia. Secondo questa teoria, il romanzo è l’unica forma di conoscenza capace di una comprensione veritiera della coscienza umana nello specifico dell’esperienza del tempo data all’umanità: la contingenza. Questo articolo è il primo studio italiano integralmente dedicato a questo intellettuale. In Temps et roman (1946), Pouillon develops an original pre-structuralistic theory of the novel based on existentialism, psychology and anthropology. According to this theory, the novel is the only form of knowledge capable of a faithful comprehension of human consciousness in the specific experience of time given to mankind: contingency. This paper is the first Italian study completely devoted to this intellectual.

Recensione di Pontiggia, Giuseppe. La lente di Svevo, a cura Daniela Marcheschi, EDB, 2017. Review of Pontiggia, Giuseppe. La lente di Svevo, edited by Daniela Marcheschi, EDB, 2017.

What drew Italo Svevo and James Joyce together was in part a profound similarity in artistic sensibility. This similarity can be understood in fairly concrete terms if one examines the parallel relationships that these two writers had with their younger brothers. Both writers drew, in remarkably similar ways, from their younger brothers’ often painful experiences life. Both writers, in short, needed to maintain an indeterminate identity – something for which the city of Trieste was peculiarly suitable – in order to become and therefore to create the characters that would inhabit their imaginative writing.

The aim of this article is to analyze the English translation of La Coscienza di Zeno by Beryl de Zoete (1930). We will attempt to define the choices and the swerves of the translation compared to the original text. The English translation is ethnocentric because, despite it apparent accuracy, it threatens the authorial style and its linguistic peculiarities forcing Svevo’s text to metamorphose in an “Anglo-Saxon” novel.

One of Carmen Martín Gaite’s interest was the Italian literature. There are many studies that focused their attention on the influence that this literature has in the Carmen Martín Gaite’s work. But the influence of Italo Svevo is forgotten. In this work I want to focus my attention in the relationship between La coscienza di Zeno and Ritmo Lento.