Silvia Albertazzi
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View article: The Years of Writing Dangerously
The Years of Writing Dangerously Open
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View article: The Last (Resort) of England. Melancholy, Delusion and Disillusion in the Mid-Eighities
The Last (Resort) of England. Melancholy, Delusion and Disillusion in the Mid-Eighities Open
In 1986, the photographer Martin Parr published The Last Resort, a controversial collection of shots taken at the popular beach of New Brighton. At the time, the book caused a great upheaval: Parr’s view of the working-class holiday-makers…
View article: Geoff Dyer’s Ways of Seeing
Geoff Dyer’s Ways of Seeing Open
In this paper I will try to show how photography informs Geoff Dyer’s novel and essay writing, not only by affecting its contents, but mainly by playing a part in the structures and modes of his works, both on the narrative and non-narrati…
View article: ‘From Brixton to Ghirriland’. An Interview with Geoff Dyer
‘From Brixton to Ghirriland’. An Interview with Geoff Dyer Open
I met Geoff Dyer for the first time in 1999, when he came to Bologna to launch the first Italian edition of The Colour of Memory. Almost twenty years later, at the end of November 2017, he came back to my city, to launch the new edition of…
View article: “And then I smiled”: Recent Postcolonial Fiction and the War on Terror
“And then I smiled”: Recent Postcolonial Fiction and the War on Terror Open
The aim of this essay is to compare the reactions to the 2001 attack to the Twin Towers as they are related and reflected upon in Western and non-Western fiction. We start from the analysis of a novel by a Pakistani author, Mohsin Hamid, "…