Dalle Avventure ai Miracoli

This book presents new insight into the narrative works of the Italian author Massimo Bontempelli. It fills an important gap in Bontempelli scholarship by providing an unprecedented critical study of his works. As the chapters of this book unfold, the reader becomes familiar not only with Bontempelli's short stories and with his experimentations but also with the main devices of one of the most popular genres in which today's authors are writing: metafiction. The application of the contemporary critical notion of metafiction to this body of narrative works enables reflection and discussion on captivating and complex problems of fictional theory and fiction writing, enriching Bontempelli's texts with new qualities and meaning.