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Selected Essays and Dialogues by Gianni Celati: Adventures into the errant familiar

Barron, Patrick (Ed). (2024) Selected Essays and Dialogues by Gianni Celati: Adventures into the errant familiar. [Book]. Literature and Translation. UCL Press: London, UK. Green open access

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Selected Essays and Dialogues is a collection of translations of Italian writer and filmmaker Gianni Celati’s theoretical and musing work from the late 1960s to the present. Topics range from environmental perception and archaeological conceptions of historical knowledge, to street theatre, writing, photography, cinema and translation. The book provides a framework of key literary, theoretical and artistic movements of the last 50 years, as well as a guide for English-language readers to place Celati’s work in historical, cultural and biographical context, serving to illuminate his books available in English, namely Towards the River’s Mouth, Adventures in Africa, Voices from the Plains and Appearances. There are various paths to take, tempting readers to wander and become lost in webs of daring thought, drawn ever on by Celati’s fondness for the unexpected ordinary and his bonhomie with others. Indeed, a genial adventurousness can be found within all of Celati’s writings collected here, driven by an affectionate and light-hearted engagement with the surrounding world. Herein is a taste of a seemingly endless series of adventures of the mind and body, always tapped into a lithe sensitivity for an encompassing collective imagination not restricted to the so-called high arts or letters, but very much also engaged with the everyday lives, places and tales we all constantly share.

Type: Book
Title: Selected Essays and Dialogues by Gianni Celati: Adventures into the errant familiar
ISBN: 9781800086395
ISBN-13: 9781800086395
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.14324/111.9781800086395
Language: English
Additional information: This book is published under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial Non-derivative 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). This licence allows you to share, copy, distribute and transmit the work for personal and non-commercial use providing author and publisher attribution is clearly stated. Attribution should include the following information: Barron, P (ed. and trans.). 2024. Selected Essays and Dialogues by Gianni Celati: Adventures into the errant familiar. London: UCL Press. https://doi.org/10.14324/111.9781800086395 Further details about Creative Commons licences are available at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/
Keywords: Celati, translation, literature, Italian, essay writing, biographical writing, art, theory, filmmaking
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10188044
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