A Brief Note on Spectral Philology – or the Posthumous Encounter between Ennio Flaiano and Philip Roth

Spectral Philology. Some time ago, when it became known that Adelphi would become Philip Roth’s new Italian publisher, I felt like returning to his novels in the Einaudi guise. I reread Operazione Shylock in its entirety, then I moved on to Pastorale americana. Both translations are by Vincenzo Mantovani and seem excellent to me; I wonder if Adelphi will keep them or if they will propose new versions. However, here we are not talking about trans…