Alla lettera

Luis Britto García; Ivana Calceglia

Alla lettera

Authors

Luis Britto García

University of Caracas in Venezuela

Ivana Calceglia

University of Naples "L'Orientale"

Keywords:

Britto García, micro fiction, science-fiction, Spanish-American literature, Venezuelan Literature

Synopsis

Publisher: UniorPress

Series: Miscellaneous

Pages: 150

Language: Italian

NBN: http://nbn.depositolegale.it/urn:nbn:it:unina-25778

Abstract: The volume offers an Italian translation of Rajatabla (Alla lettera), the first short-stories collection by Luis Britto García, a Venezuelan author. Rajatabla can be considered the most famous work of one of the most active writers during the so called Spanish-American Literature Boom. The volume aims at offering an alternative dimension to the more famous novels written in Latin America during the same literary period. The critical introduction deals with the salient themes of the volume. First of all, the theory and practice of micro-fiction in Latin America; secondly, the cultural elements that this narrative form may include and finally, the relationship between ultra-short fiction and social-cultural issues in Latin America Literature. In particular, with regard to the first point, we have evaluated the impact of short forms in the Subcontinet Literary Studies especially through the works of Rosalba Campra.

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Author Biographies

Luis Britto García, University of Caracas in Venezuela

Luis Britto García is a Venezuelan writer, playwright and essayist. His fiction has been recognised twice with the Casa de Las Américas Prize, for his works Rajatabla (1970) and Abrapalabra (1979). In 2002 he was the winner of Venezuela's National Prize for Literature, given as a lifetime achievement award. In 2005 he was recognized with the Ezequiel Martínez Estrada honorary award of Casa de Las Américas.

Ivana Calceglia, University of Naples "L'Orientale"

Ivana Calceglia obtained her PhD in "Romance Literatures" with a thesis on the relationship between childhood and writing in Spanish female fiction of the twentieth century. She carries out her research activities at the Department of Literary, Linguistic and Comparative Studies of the University of Naples "L'Orientale", where she also teaches Spanish language. Her research interests lie in contemporary Spanish Children's literature, Women's writing and in autobiographical writing. She has participated in various national and international conferences, in Italy and abroad. She is a member of AISPI (Italian Hispanists Association) and BETA (Asociación de Jóvenes Doctores en Hispanismo).