Giraffes in the Garden of Italian Literature : Modernist Embodiment in Italo Svevo, Federigo Tozzi and Carlo Emilio Gadda

Giraffes in the Garden of Italian Literature investigates the central nexus in the work of Italo Svevo, Federigo Tozzi and Carlo Emilio Gadda and considers it as evidence of a programmatic attempt to renegotiate human embodiment in order to validate an alternate space of lived corporeality.