Front matter

Protocol and project: the Oulipo and the process of writing

1–10

'Vieillir' by Raymond Queneau: a self-mocking elegy

11–18

'À l'Amitié': Henri Matisse et André Rouveyre

19–28

Tales of trouble and toil: an intertextual reading of Giovannin Bongee, Tevye the Dairyman and Tino Faussone

29–39

The Vietnamese cooking legacy: a cultural and post-colonial exploration of food metaphors in Linda Lê's Les Trois Parques

40–49

Narrative 'You' and 'I' in the opening of Oriana Fallaci's Un uomo

50–59

A metafictional reading of Massimo Bontempelli's La scacchiera davanti allo specchio

60–68

'Une vierge à soi-même enlacée': the cycle of the eternal return in Paul Valéry's La Jeune Parque

69–77

Bellodi's 'Saluto delle armi' re-examined

78–87

The public and the private: the making of history in I Viceré

88–104

'Il grumo che resta sui polpastrellui': Resisting angels in the poetry of Eugenio Montale

105–116

Refashioning the South: Fabrizia Ramondino's narrative spaces

117–133