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Article: Accademia.
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- World Literature Today
- Article date:
- June 22, 1998
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Giose Rimanelli. Toronto. Guernica. 1997. 174 pages. Can$15. ISBN 1-55071-015-X.
Giose Rimanelli's latest novel, Accademia, is a curious mixture of frothy sexual encounters (which occur in and around the confines of an unnamed university) within a kind of postmodern posture that one would expect from the author of the American Book Award-winning liquid novel, Benedetta in Guysterland (written 1961-72, published 1993; see WLT 68:3, pp. 4173-78). Accademia was written in 1975 as a sequel to Benedetta in Guysterland, and one can see the similarities. Structurally, the work is divided into two parts, each containing ten chapters, which are loosely structured as diaries ...