Bøger af Alessia Ricciardi

Alessia Ricciardi revisits questions about Elena Ferrante's identity to show how the problem of authorship is deeply intertwined with the novels' literary ambition and politics. Ricciardi reads Ferrante's fiction as world literature, foregrounding the alleged writer Anita Raja's work as a translator.

"The Ends of Mourning" explores from an interdisciplinary perspective the crisis of contemporary culture with respect to the problem of mourning. The book charts the emergence and development of the problem of mourning in the writings of Freud, Proust and Freud's successor Lacan.

This book chronicles the demise of the so-called leftist Italian cultural establishment during the long 1980s.