| Description |
xxiii, 492 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 479-480). |
| Contents |
Name and tears / Elio Vittorini -- Picturesque lives / Giovanni Verga -- The siren / Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa -- Against time / Antonio Tabucchi -- Generous wine / Italo Svevo -- The long voyage / Leonardo Sciascia -- Bago / Alberto Savinio -- The hen / Umberto Saba -- The lady / Lalla Romano -- The tower / Fabrizia Ramondino -- The trap / Luigi Pirandello -- Melancholy / Cesare Pavese -- Silence / Aldo Palazzeschi -- A pair of eyeglasses / Anna Mari Ortese -- The other side of the moon / Alberto Moravia -- The ambitious ones / Elsa Morante -- Sixteen, twenty-one, twenty-eight and thirty seven from Centuria / Giorgio Manganelli -- Quaestio de centauris / Primo Levi -- Gogol's wife / Tommaso Landolfi -- My husband / Natalia Ginzburg -- The mother / Carlo Emilio Gadda -- A Martian in Rome / Ennio Flaiano -- The smell of death / Beppe Fenoglio -- Life as a couple / Luce D'Eramo -- The milliner / Antonio Delfini -- The hind / Grazia Deledda -- Invitation to dinner / Alba de Céspedes -- Elegy for Signora Nodier / Silvio D'Arzo -- Malpasso / Fausta Cialente -- At the station / Carlo Cassola -- The golden nut / Christina Campo -- Dialogue with a tortoise / Italo Calvino -- And yet they are knocking at your door / Dino Buzzati -- The miraculous beach, or, Prize for modesty / Massimo Bontempelli -- A geographical error / Romano Bilenchi -- The streetwalker / Luciano Bianciardi -- Miss / Anna Banti -- The baboon / Giovanni Arpino -- Barefoot / Corrado Alvaro. |
| Summary |
"When Jhumpa Lahiri decided to read exclusively in Italian, a language she had studied for many years, her life as a reader - and writer - took a surprising turn. Complete immersion in this rich literary heritage brought fresh insight and unexpected freedom. This collection brings together forty writers that have shaped her love of the Italian language and profound appreciation for its literature. More than half of the stories featured in this volume have been translated into English for the first time and the wide ranging selection includes well known authors such as Italo Calvino, Elsa Morante and Luigi Pirandello, alongside many captivating rediscoveries. The writers that inhabit these pages represent a dynamic cross section of Italian society. Together they reflect over a hundred years of Italy's vibrant and diverse short story tradition, their powerful voices resonating through regional landscapes, private passions and the dramatic political events of the twentieth century." -- (Source of summary not specified). |
| Subject |
Short stories, Italian -- Translations into English.
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Italy -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.
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18.29 Italian literature. (NL-LeOCL)077612108
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18.29 Italian literature. (NL-LeOCL)077612108
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Short stories, Italian. (OCoLC)fst01117243
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| Genre/Form |
Short stories. (OCoLC)fst01726740
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Translations. (OCoLC)fst01423791
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| Subject |
18.29 Italian literature. (NL-LeOCL)077612108
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| Genre/Form |
Short stories.
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| Added Author |
Lahiri, Jhumpa, editor, writer of introduction, translator.
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| Added Title |
Italian short stories |
| Other Form: |
ebook version : 9780141985626 |
| ISBN |
9780241299838 (hardback) |
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0241299837 (hardback) |
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9780141985626 (ePub ebook) |
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