FAIRY INSPIRATION IN THE WORKS OF GIANNI RODARI
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Abstract
Gianni Rodari is an Italian author who has made significant contributions to children’s literature worldwide. Gianni Rodari creates a “strange phenomenon” in the Italian literary of the 20th century by incorporating fairy tales’ elements into modern short stories. This article presents sources of inspiration for Gianni Rodari's writing. The theory about writing inspiration is used to study the author's life and Italian sociocultural context, which is pointed out in three sources constituting the fairy-tale inspiration in the writer's works to the same degree: Italian national consciousness, the losses of the times, and the author's worldview. The study of fairy-tale inspiration in Gianni Rodari's writing has contributed in terms of documentary basis to the research foundation of Italian children's literature and foreign literature in general in Vietnam.
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writing inspiration, the fairy-tale inspiration in the works, Gianni Rodari, fairy tales, Italian children's literature
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