A Guide to Contemporary Italian Literature: From Futurism to Neorealism - Softcover

Sergio Pacifici’s Guide . . . must be de­scribed . . . as a milestone. . . . It is the only book of its kind in English, and tracing as it does the author’s ever-widen­ing interest in Italian literature, it can indeed serve as a guide to those readers who wish to give at least a measure of depth to their often incidental and casual acquaintance with the subject.” Books Abroad

More than an ideal of what English criticism of Italian writing should be should also serve as a touchstone for all books on writing today.” Shenandoah

This book certainly fills a gap in that it presents to the American reader a rich, diversified, and reasoned view of Italian literature in our time.” Cesare Barbieri Courier