Modern Fiction in Translation

4 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)

Lecture, three hours. Select issues in 20th-century thought traced in writers of international fame, with focus on concerns and styles of several prose works such as Umberto Eco’s The Name of the Rose , Pasolini’s The Ragazzi , Pirandello’s The Late Mattia Pascal , and Calvino’s The Cosmicomics . P/NP or letter grading.