Bibliographic record
Abstract
Luigi Malerba uses his knowledge of peasant society to publish, in 1963, his first book of fiction, La scoperta dell’alfabeto (The Discovery of the Alphabet).1 While this collection of brief narratives represents the sharecroppers known by Malerba in his youth, the focus of the text (and of this essay) is the narrating voice. Specifically, his transformation from “il ragazzo” (“the boy”) of the opening tale into “l’uomo” (the man) of the concluding novella. The tales of peasant life that comprise the bulk of the text are non-chronologically ordered elements of a recherche that, at the book’s end, leaves unelaborated and repressed the narrator’s participation in and perpetuation of the long-standing system of class oppression of which he is a beneficiary. Moreover, consideration of the modifications wrought in the definitive 1971 edition, when juxtaposed to the two experimental novels by Malerba published in the interim, Il serpent (The Serpent, 1966) and Salto morale (What Is This Buzzing? Do You Hear It Too?, 1968), enables us to chart Malerba’s gradual supersession of the neorealism of his mentor, Cesare Zavattini.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.006 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.008 | 0.002 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".