Blakesley Blakesley

Great Italian Short Stories of the Twentieth Century/I Grandi Racconti Italiani del Novecento

Herausgeber: Blakesley, Jacob

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This anthology highlights the rich range of modern Italian fiction, presenting the first English translations of works by many famous authors. Contents include fables and stories by Italo Calvino, Elsa Morante, Alberto Moravia, and Cesare Pavese; historical fiction by Leonardo Sciascia and Mario Rigoni Stern; and little-known tales by Luigi Pirandello and Carlo Emilio Gadda. No further apparatus or reference is necessary for this self-contained text. Appropriate for high school and college courses as well as for self-study, this volume will prove a fine companion for teachers and intermediate-level students of Italian language and literature as well as readers wishing to brush up on their language skills. Dover (2013) original publication. See every Dover book in print at www.doverpublications.com

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Produktdetails

• Dover Dual Language Italian
• Verlag: Dover Publications Inc.
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. September 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 136mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 338g
• ISBN-13: 9780486476315
• ISBN-10: 0486476316
• Artikelnr.: 35558691

Autorenporträt

Jacob Blakesley received his PhD in literature from the University of Chicago and is currently a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Leeds. His translations of Italian poetry and prose have appeared in Poetry Miscellany and The Journal of Italian Translation.

Inhaltsangabe

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) 33/ 33 Gianni Celati (1937
) La bottega dei mimi / The Mimes' Workshop