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This volume examines the role of Gianni Celati in shaping Italian fiction and culture, since the 1960s, as a leading narrator, writer, scholar, translator and filmmaker. This volume stems from a conference organized at the University of Leicester in May 2007 to celebrate Celati's long-standing and multi-faceted career on the occasion of his 70th birthday, and also his close collaboration with writers and translators such as Daniele Benati, Ermanno Cavazzoni, Enrico De Vivo and Jean Talon - all guests at the conference for the first time in the UK, together with the main Celati scholars. Whilst exploring various aspects of these writers' work, the volume investigates the notion put forward by Celati of literature as 'fantasticazione', or reverie, in the sense of a collective work of the mind that stems from a shared imagination within a community of like-minded people. Reflecting the atmosphere of 'symposium' of the conference, this volume includes both the writers' contributions, their round tables on the questions of literature and of translation, and the critical analyses of many leading Celati scholars on different aspects of his work and of that of his colleagues.

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Today Celati is the only Italian writer in whose comic and melancholic work the reader can evaluate the tremendous struggle of imaginative thought, since the faculty of thinking took over at the dawn of Modernity and merged intellect and imagination. - Prof. Massimo Rizzantem Universita degli Studi di Trento ... an important book in the field of Italian Studies: this book will become an indispensable tool for scholars, students, and connoisseurs of Italian literature who want to deepen their knowledge of one of the most interesting Italian narrators of the last three decades. - Prof. Marco Codebo Long Island University

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