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By:Stefano Tani
Published on 1984-05-01 by Southern Illinois Univ Pr
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“Tani’s dissertation is the most stun\u00adningly original and intelligent I have encountered in 25 years of teaching,” wrote the late novelist John Gardner. Tani’s argument says that the “mys\u00adtery story as written by Hammett and others and touted by the French existen\u00adtialists led to a new kind of novel and the old-style mystery, as written by, for ex\u00adample, Agatha Christie, seemed a liter\u00adary dead end—a conservative if not reac\u00adtionary game. In recent years, Tani shows, the seeming dead end has led to the most important literary movement now visible: the ironic intellectual fic\u00adtion of people ranging from Borges and Barth to Calvino, and he proves that the spearhead of this movement is Italian fiction as influenced by American mys\u00adtery fiction. At first glance, the argu\u00adment seems outrageous. The brilliance of Tani’s thesis—besides the original outrageous idea—is that he solidly and systematically makes his case.”
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