Svevo and Tozzi
F05
Roberto de Lucca
Italo Svevo and Federigo Tozzi are two of the most important Italian narrative prose writers of the early 20th century. We will study how both of these writers, each from very different worlds (Svevo from cosmopolitan Trieste and Tozzi from provincial Tuscany), developed narrative structures that incorporated avant-garde ideals of self and society, psychoanalysis, and subjectivity. Students will learn to analyze narrative structure and language use in prose fiction, and to create outlines toward work on different types of essays (personal and research based), as well as begin a study of scholarly articles pertaining to subjects suggested by the two writers.