Effetto Poe is an essay on comparative literature dedicated to the great success that Edgar Allan Poe gained in Italy from the moment the translation of his works reached the Turin bookshops in 1857 until the mid-twentieth century. The volume re-enacts the history of a long and complex assimilation, analysing the relationship that some thirty Italian writers had with the work of Poe, considered as readers, translators, critics or imitators. Baccio Emanuele Maineri, Igino Ugo Tarchetti, Emilio Cecchi, Giovanni Papini, Tommaso Landolfi, Dino Buzzati, Ennio Flaiano are just some of the authors representing the Italian nocturnal side that grew up in the shadow of the American master's nightmares.
University of Florence, Italy
Book Title
Effetto Poe
Book Subtitle
Influssi dello scrittore americano sulla letteratura italiana
Authors
Costanza Melani
Peer Reviewed
Publication Year
2006
Copyright Information
© 2006 Author(s)
Content License
Metadata License
Publisher Name
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/978-88-6453-158-8
eISBN (pdf)
978-88-6453-158-8
eISBN (xml)
978-88-9273-911-6
Series Title
Fonti storiche e letterarie – Edizioni cartacee e digitali
Series ISSN
2704-5994
Series E-ISSN
2704-6001