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Article: Giose Rimanelli's 'Benedetta in Guysterland': a "liquid" novel of questionable textual boundaries.
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- World Literature Today
- Article date:
- June 22, 1994
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Certo e un azzardo un po' forte, scrivere delle cose cosi, che ci son professori oggidi a tutte le porte.
Aldo Palazzeschi, "E lasciatemi divertire"(2)
Benedetta in Guysterland: A Liquid Novel is Giose Rimanelli's first book-length work of prose fiction in English. Written well over twenty years ago, conceived, processed, and finally drafted into manuscript form during the 1961-72 decade, it was published only recently by Guernica Editions of Montreal (March 1993).
Rimanelli's first novel, Tiro al piccione, was published in 1953 by Mondadori, one of Italy's major publishing houses, then and now. Very well received in Italy, it was soon translated into ...