Contesting the Monument: The Anti-Illusionist Italian Historical Novel. By RUTH GLYNN. Leeds: Northern Universities Press. 2005. 148 pp. 36 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 1-904350-04-6.
This study is consistently inspired by an original, thought-provoking, and convincing idea; it is supported by serious theoretical research and sensitive literary analyses, and has a very good balance between the two. Fully at ease with novelists as different as Consolo, De Roberto, Eco, Morante, and ...