<p>Lecture, three hours. Select issues in 20th-century thought traced in writers of international fame, with focus on concerns and styles of several prose works such as Umberto Eco’s <cite>The Name of the Rose</cite>, Pasolini’s <cite>The Ragazzi</cite>, Pirandello’s <cite>The Late Mattia Pascal</cite>, and Calvino’s <cite>The Cosmicomics</cite>. P/NP or letter grading.</p>

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Modern Fiction in Translation

ITALIAN 150

4 units