In Il Deserto dei Tartari1 and Il Visconte Dimezzato2, written respectively by Dino Buzzati and Italo Calvino, the omnipresence of nature sets its role as much more than a passive setting. Kate Rigby in Introducing Criticism at the 21st Century, defines the role of nature as being a background of images bearing symbolic meanings. Marie- Helene Caspar completes this statement by saying that: “Il paesaggio non e solo una cornice, qualcosa di esterno, senza importanza. Anzi, esso fa da complemento al
Italian novelist, Dino Buzzati, in his story, “Seven Floors,” describes the struggles a man, Giovanni Corte, has with his slight illness in a sanatorium. According to the story, the seven floors of the sanatorium are separated based on the “gravity of their state;” the seventh floor is for the extremely mild cases while the first floor is for the cases the doctors can’t fix. There are various concepts and theories, we have been learning about in class, found within the story. Self-serving bias
“The Falling Girl” is an intriguing story written by Dino Buzzati. With an eloquent style, Buzzati writes of a girl who fell off a of skyscraper. This girl is dubbed Marta. Marta exchanged her youth and beauty for the poisoned chalice that societies offers. The story counties throughout the span of the rest of her existence; from the moment she jumped, to the moment she died. “The Falling Girl” grabs the readers attention from the very first paragraphs to the very last words. However, the story
Phantom Menace" ($64.8 million). It also set new records for a non-summer opening, an R-rated release and for a release by domestic distributor Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc. "I must confess I expected it to be big, but not this big," "Hannibal" producer Dino De Laurentiis told Reuters from Berlin. Indeed most industry expectations were in the $35 million- $40 million range. MGM distribution president Larry Gleason said he had hoped to surpass the $42 million bow of the 2000 horror spoof "Scary Movie,"