{"id":2565,"date":"2014-04-25T13:08:53","date_gmt":"2014-04-25T13:08:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/?p=2565"},"modified":"2015-09-01T16:55:24","modified_gmt":"2015-09-01T15:55:24","slug":"raffaello-palumbo-mosca-writes-on-truth-and-novels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2014\/04\/25\/raffaello-palumbo-mosca-writes-on-truth-and-novels\/","title":{"rendered":"Raffaello Palumbo Mosca writes on truth and novels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Raffaello Palumbo Mosca, Research Fellow in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/italian\/index.html\">Department of Italian<\/a>, has recently published a new book, entitled <i>L&#8217;invenzione del vero: Romanzi ibridi e discorso etico nell&#8217;Italia contemporanea <\/i>[<i>The Invention of Truth: Hybrid Novels and Ethical Discourse in Contemporary Italy<\/i>] (Gaffi Editore, 2014).<\/p>\n<p>The publisher\u2019s description is in Italian; in English it reads as follows:<\/p>\n<p>\u2018This book contributes to a long-running literary debate that has dominated the cultural pages of Italian press for some years: it is true that the novel \u2018died\u2019?\u00a0 In celebrating the end of the genre have we not lost our understanding of the object in question? What is \u2013 what <i>has become<\/i> today \u2013 this thing (the novel) that could be dying? And, more importantly, this novel that dies \u2013 <i>if<\/i> it dies \u2013 is something we still need?<\/p>\n<p>From Antonio Franchini\u2019s <i>L\u2019Abusivo<\/i> to Jonathan Littell\u2019s <i>The Kindly Ones<\/i>, passing by Roberto Saviano\u2019s non-fictional novels, and the moral meditations of Eraldo Affinati, <i>L\u2019invenzione del vero<\/i> is a journey in contemporary Italian, French, and American fiction.<\/p>\n<p>With a careful textual analysis and rigorous research of the sources, Raffaello Palumbo Mosca finds and reveals the reasons that still make the novel a key tool for understanding both the world and the human being.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>For more details on the book, please see the publisher\u2019s page here:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gaffi.it\/cgi-bin\/front_end\/libri?id=2542&amp;autori=1\">www.gaffi.it\/cgi-bin\/front_end\/libri?id=2542&amp;autori=1<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Raffaello Palumbo Mosca, Research Fellow in the Department of Italian, has recently published a new book, entitled L&#8217;invenzione del vero: Romanzi ibridi e discorso &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2014\/04\/25\/raffaello-palumbo-mosca-writes-on-truth-and-novels\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2458,"featured_media":2566,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2565"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2458"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2565"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4815,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2565\/revisions\/4815"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}