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Nicoletta Simborowski. Secrets and Puzzles. Silence and the Unsaid in Contemporary Italian Writing.

Publication: Italica
Publication Date: 22-MAR-04 		Format: Online - approximately 986 words
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Full Article Title: Nicoletta Simborowski. Secrets and Puzzles. Silence and the Unsaid in Contemporary Italian Writing.(Book Review)

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Nicoletta Simborowski. Secrets and Puzzles. Silence and the Unsaid in Contemporary Italian Writing. Oxford: Legenda, 2003.

Primo Levi, Cesare Pavese, Natalia Ginzburg, and Francesca Sanvitale are at the center of Nicoletta Simborowski's study of the poetics of the unsaid that aims to demonstrate that "aspects of the text that were omitted within the structure of what had ostensibly been selected" (1) yield important information and reveal new layers of meaning. This perspective is used to examine works written after the Second World War, "when censorship [did] not apply," and when "what writers choose not to say becomes particularly significant" (13).

The book is comprised of a preface, six chapters--earlier versions of chapters two, three, and four originally appeared in literary journals--and a conclusion. The first chapter establishes a theoretical framework for the study and includes a discussion of the unconscious and the psychological, the theory of silence,...

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