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Synopsis
A collection of twenty-four works from one of Italy's modern masters, that includes metaphysical musings and stories about gambling, obsession, and love gone disturbingly awry
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Text: English, Italian (translation)
From Library Journal
This translation of 24 stories by Italy's Landolfi marks one of the rare appearances of his work in English. Much admired in Europe, Landolfi's work entertains in a dark, often ironic and obsessive, way that may remind English readers of Poe or Kafka. Almost all these tales have elements of fantasy and horror; a man is apparently buried alive in "The Labrenas," an innocent parlor game turns into a murder in "The Provincial Night." In other stories, such as "Personaphilologicadramatic Conference with Implications" and the title story, "Words in Commotion," the obscure references to obsolete words make for slow reading. Nearly all the stories end with a disturbing lack of resolution but nevertheless make rewarding reading. Lucinda Ann Peck, Learning Design Associates, Gahanna, Ohio
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- PublisherPenguin Books
- Publication date1988
- ISBN 10 0140094776
- ISBN 13 9780140094770
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages304
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Softcover/Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Twenty-four stories, including Gogol's Wife, his best known; translated and edited by Kathrine Jason, introduction by Italo Calvino. Pictorial wrappers. Very good. book. Seller Inventory # 48004
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Paperback. Condition: Good copy. 1st edition in Penguin. 'King Penguin'. Set in Bodoni Book. Cover design by Susan Newman. Cover illustration: Ralph Masiello. With an introduction by Italo Calvino: 'Precision and chance'. Translated and edited by Kathrine Jason. All but four of the stories in this book are from 'Le pił belle pagine di Tommaso Landolfi (1982). 'The test' is from 'A caso'. 'Chickenfate' from 'Racconti impossibili', 'Uxoricide' from 'Le labrene' and 'The ampulla' from 'Del meno'. 'Gogol's wife' and 'Dialogue of the greater system' are originally from 'Gogol's wife and other stories'. Contents: 1). Fantastic stories (7). 2). Obsessive stories (2). 3). Dialogues (2). 4) Horrific stories (2). 5). Between aurobiography and invention (4). 6). Love and nothingness (3). 7). Little treatises (1). 8). Words and writing (4). With translator's afterwords. XXIII + 273 + (3) pag. Size: 19,5cmx12,5cm. Seller Inventory # 024773
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