Full Description
This anthology highlights the rich range of modern Italian fiction, presenting the first English translations of works by many famous authors. Contents include stories by Italo Calvino, Elsa Morante, Alberto Moravia, and Cesare Pavese; historical fiction by Leonardo Sciascia and Mario Rigoni Stern; and lesser-known tales by Luigi Pirandello and Carlo Emilio Gadda. Dover Original. 272pp.
Contents
Introduction
Translator's Note
Acknowledgments
Luigi Pirandello (1867- 1936)
La vita nuda / Naked Life
Federigo Tozzi (1883- 1920)
Il crocifisso / The Crucifix
Carlo Emilio Gadda (1893- 1973)
La cenere delle battaglie / The Ash of Distant Battles
Dino Buzzati (1906- 1972)
Un uomo importante / An Important Man
Alberto Moravia (1907- 1990)
Mi chiamo Alice sono una trottola / My Name is Alice I am a Spinning Top
Tommaso Landolfi (1908- 1979)
Animalini / Little Animals
Cesare Pavese (1908- 1950)
La zingara / The Gypsy Woman
Elsa Morante (1912- 1985)
Il ladro dei lumi / The Thief of Lights
Leonardo Sciascia (1921- 1989)
Arrivano i nostri / Our Men are Arriving
Mario Rigoni Stern (1921- 2008)
Bepi, un richiamato del '13 / Bepi, a Recalled Reservist from 1913
Giorgio Manganelli (1922- 1990)
La cartolina / The Postcard
Italo Calvino (1923- 1985)
Il crollo del tempo: su alcuni disegni di Saul Steinberg / The Collapse of Time (on some drawings by Saul Steinberg)
Luigi Malerba (1927- 2008)
La difesa della lingua / The Defense of Italian
Goffredo Parise (1929- 1986)
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Gianni Celati (1937- )
La bottega dei mimi / The Mimes' Workshop
