Industrial Literature and Authors

Bianca Rita Cataldi is a Research Lead at the UCD Humanities Institute at University College Dublin. She has recently been awarded the Alberto Institute Visiting Fellowship at Seton Hall University (New Jersey).

ACKNOWLEDEGMENTS Introduction Chapter 1 Utopia and Labor: Modernity, Industrialization, and Alienation 1.1. Links between Utopia and Labor: Modernity and the Democratization of Utopia 1.2. Utopian Socialism: The Industrial Revolution and the Evolution of Utopia 1.3 Marxism, Utopia, and Alienation Chapter 2 Adriano Olivetti: Visions of Utopia and Labor 2.1. Adriano Olivetti: the Entrepreneur and the Quest for the Future 2.2. The Establishment and Evolution of Olivetti’s Utopia: The Foundation of the Movimento di Comunità Chapter 3 Utopia and Literature: Industrial Literary Production in Italy 3.1. The Industrial Novel and Marxist Literary Theory 3.2. Italian Fiction and its Relationship with Labor 3.3 Una visita in fabbrica: Italian Industrial Literature between Neorealism and Experimental Writing 3.4 Italian Industrial Literature: A Problematic Codification Chapter 4 Testimonial Realism: Industrial Literature and Testimonial Intent 4.1. Italian Industrial Literature as a Form of Realism 4.2. The Rise of Testimonial Realism: The Olivettian Authors as Witnesses to Factory Life 4.3 Industrial Authors: Differences and Similarities 4.4 The Factory as a Utopian Place Chapter 5 The (Un)Happy Factory: Ottieri’s Donnarumma all’assalto 5.1. Ottiero Ottieri, the Author and the Narrator 5.2. Utopia and its Limits 5.3 Female Representation in Ottieri’s Donnarumma all’assalto 5.4 The Carnival: The Factory as Utopian Place 5.5 ‘La disoccupazione sempre divide’: The Limits of Utopia Chapter 6 Paolo Volponi from Utopia to Dystopia: Memoriale and Le mosche del capitale 6.1. Paolo Volponi from Utopia to Testimonial Intent 6.2. The Multifaceted Factory: Memoriale 6.3 Le mosche del capitale and Testimonial Intent 6.4 Le mosche del capitale and the Failure of Utopia CONCLUSION