%0 Journal Article %T Forgotten Communication: Humans and Dogs in Curzio Malaparte¡¯s and Carlo Levi¡¯s Literature | Alvarez | Review of European Studies | CCSE %J Home | Review of European Studies | CCSE %D 2019 %R 10.5539/res.v11n1p14 %X This paper analyzes the role of the dog in the work of two modern Italian writers, selecting from each of the texts in which they formulate a peculiar role for the animal represented in their works. The dog is sometimes capable of being the key that opens a magical world and becomes the counterpart to humanity, harboring the feelings that modernity and fascist politics displaced during the crucial time between 1922 and 1945 %U http://www.ccsenet.org/journal/index.php/res/article/view/0/37924