When Stories Travel: Cross-Cultural Encounters between Fiction and Film Book

Acknowledgments ix

Note to the Reader xi

Introduction 1

1 "Fear Death by Water": The Postman Always Rings Twice and the Frauds of Memory 25

2 Myth in the Mirror of History: The Rules of Fate and the Responsibilities of Choice in Visconti's Ossessione 44

3 Grotesque Doublings and the Dangers of the Sublime: Poe's "Never Bet the Devil Your Head" 67

4 Fellini's "Unoriginal" Scripts: The Creative Power of the Grotesque 87

5 India through the Looking Glass: The Narrative Heritage of the West and Antonio Tabucchi's Notturno indiano 109

6 "A Cinema of Quotations": Nocturne indien; or, How Alain Corneau Filmed Antonio Tabucchi's "Night" 123

7 The Writer in the Looking Glass: Jorge Luis Borges's "Tema del traidor y del héroe" and the Ambivalences of the Uncanny 145

8 From Icon to Simulacrum: Bertolucci's La strategia del ragno and the Urban Labyrinths of the Uncanny 162

Afterword 196

Notes 201

Bibliography 245

Index 263