The invisible businessman: Nuclear physics, patenting practices,and trading activities in the 1930s

In the 1930s the production of patents for the protection of intellectual rights became central to the research activities of Enrico Fermi and his group, consistently with a research policy emerging within the Italian Fascist Regime. Behind their work was an international network consisting of businessmen, industrialists, and multinationals who helped them patent their method for the production of artificial radioactive elements and to promote its industrial exploitation. The lack of research funding combined with a more aggressive foreign policy of the regime made it impossible for the group to continue these activities in Rome, and in 1938 the promulgation of racial laws forced them to migrate abroad

Il viaggio, lo sguardo, la scrittura

Il volume propone una serie di interventi dedicati al tema della letteratura di viaggio e lo fa accostando saggi di carattere teorico-metodologico a saggi di analisi delle diverse forme di scrittura che possono rientrare sotto questa etichetta, spaziando cronologicamente dal Settecento ai giorni nostri ed interpretando la definizione nella sua accezione più vasta. Non solo «scritture prodotte da viaggiatori che riferiscono e relazionano su una propria esperienza odeporica» – anche se non finalizzata alla scoperta o alla conoscenza di luoghi e persone lontane –, ma anche viaggi metaforici o parodici finalizzati ad una migliore conoscenza di sé e degli altri. Più che un genere letterario definito la letteratura di viaggio vi appare come «una sorta di arcipelago di scritture con isole (cioè i testi, o serie di testi) di forma e qualità molto differenti»

Chapter Una città, il viaggio, le frontiere, un’identità letteraria

Magris had a deep relationship with his hometown Trieste, while feeling the need to distance himself from it through his travels. Travelling is a metaphor for life; it is a weave between the will for conservation and innovation, as well as research. These issues emerge in significant narrative pages such as Non luogo a procedere (2015), which is a lucid and disenchanted consideration of the history of the city, moved by a strong ethical charge, and Tempo curvo a Krems (2019), which is a profound synthesis of the many aspects of Magris’ fictional and critical work

Imaginarios del desarrollo

Gonzalo IparraguirreBuenos Aires: Biblos2017, 328 páginas.Gonzalo IparraguirreBuenos Aires: Biblos2017, 328 páginas

L’italia nello specchio del “noir”

The term “noir” is often used nowadays as a synonym to “detective story”, sometimes without a clear differentiation between the two. In fact, “noir” refers to a recent phase of the “detective, crime novel” (in Italian: “giallo”), its “tougher”, more realistic version, with contexts and situations permeated with a more modern form of violence: sometimes organized, more brutal and more cynical. Today’s “noir” can be traced back to the American “detective story” of the 1930s (that of the “hard boiled” genre) whereas the Italian “noir” finds its roots in the more modern phase of the detective literature (from the 1960s up to now), when the tale of mystery, the criminal novel, evolves in a country which, together with its development, is also developing negative features. This work examines publications that can be defined as representatives of the genres (and sub genres) of the “mystery literature” of the past years, giving an insight into the debate on the difference between the detective and the recently evolved noir literature (and on these two genres in general). It also considers the respective initiatives to publish them , their presence in the cultural pages of newspapers and media, the discussions on the characteristics and the status of the two genres, with hints to works and writers as for example, among the others, Giancarlo De Cataldo, Loriano Macchiavelli, Hans Tuzzi, Cristina Cassar Scalia, Grazia Verasani, Gianrico Carofiglio, Valerio Varesi, Alessandro Robecchi, Nino Motta (Paolo Di Stefano)