Anna Maria Ortese, L'iguana [The Iguana]

Cosetta Seno (University of Colorado at Boulder)

Ed. by Jo Ann Cavallo, Columbia University
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.6.1: Italian Writing and Culture, 453-present.
Vol. editors: Carla Bregman (Independent Scholar - North America), Jo Ann Cavallo (Columbia University)

Dates

First circulation or publication 1965

Places

Italy (Publication/ performance; Country of Origin)

Genres and Modes

Novel

Resources

Anna Maria Ortese’s first novel, L’iguana [The Iguana], is her third major publication and the one that best represents her new artistic maturity after the magic realism of her literary debut, Angelici dolori [Angelic Pains] (1937), and the neorealism of her second short story collection, Il mare non bagna Napoli [The Bay is not Naples ] (1953). Although some of the short stories in her Neapolitan reportage, particularly “Un paio di occhiali” [A Pair of Glasses] and “Interno famigliare” [“Family Interior”], had given Ortese much visibility and appreciation among readers, other ones, such as “Il silenzio della …

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Citation: Seno, Cosetta. "L'iguana". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 28 December 2018 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=38883, accessed 24 April 2024.]

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