The Penguin Book of Italian Short Stories - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0241299837 ISBN 13 : 9780241299838

Editeur : Penguin Classics, 2019

Synopsis

'Rich. . . eclectic. . . a feast' Telegraph

This landmark collection brings together forty writers that reflect over a hundred years of Italy's vibrant and diverse short story tradition, from the birth of the modern nation to the end of the twentieth century.

Poets, journalists, visual artists, musicians, editors, critics, teachers, scientists, politicians, translators: the writers that inhabit these pages represent a dynamic cross section of Italian society, their powerful voices resonating through regional landscapes, private passions and dramatic political events.

This wide-ranging selection curated by Jhumpa Lahiri includes well known authors such as Italo Calvino, Elsa Morante and Luigi Pirandello alongside many captivating new discoveries. More than a third of the stories featured in this volume have been translated into English for the first time, several of them by Lahiri herself.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Jhumpa Lahiri is an award-winning author and translator. She received the Pulitzer Prize in 2000 for Interpreter of Maladies, her debut story collection and was awarded a National Humanities Medal in 2015. Her other works of fiction in English include The Lowland, which was a finalist for the Man Booker prize.

Lahiri has also written three books directly in Italian, including In altre parole (translated in English as In Other Words) and the novel Dove mi trovo. Her translation of Domenico Starnone's Trick was a Finalist for the National Book Award. She divides her time between Rome and Princeton University, where she is a professor of Creative Writing and Literary Translation

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

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

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Contents

Introduction by Jhumpa Lahiri
A Note on the Citation of Titles and Their Translations 

   • “Names and Tears” by Elio Vittorini
   • “Picturesque Lives” by Giovanni Verga
   • “The Siren” by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
   • “Against Time” by Antonio Tabucchi
   • “Generous Wine” by Italo Svevo
   • “The Long Voyage” by Leonardo Sciasci
   • “Bago” by Alberto Savinio 
   • “The Hen” by Umberto Saba
   • “The Lady” by Lalla Romano
   • “The Tower” by Fabrizia Ramondino
   • “The Trap” by Luigi Pirandello
   • “Wedding Trip” by Cesare Pavese
   • “Melancholy” by Goffredo Parise
   • “Silence” by Aldo Palazzeschi
   • “A Pair of Eye/glasses” by Anna Maria Ortese
   • “The Other Side of the Moon” by Alberto Moravia
   • “The Ambitious Ones” by Elsa Morante
   • “Sixteen, Twenty-one, Twenty-eight and Thirty-seven” from Centuria by Giorgio Manganelli
   • “Quaestio de Centauris” by Primo Levi
   • “Gogol’s Wife” by Tommaso Landolfi
   • “My Husband” by Natalia Ginzburg
   • “The Mother” by Carlo Emilio Gadda
   • “A Martian in Rome” by Ennio Flaiano
   • “The Smell of Death” by Beppe Fenoglio
   • “Life as a Couple” by Luce D’Eramo
   • “The Milliner” by Antonio Delfini
   • “The Hind” by Grazia Deledda
   • “Invitation to Dinner” by Alba de Céspedes
   • “Elegy for Signora Nodier” by Silvio D’Arzo
   • “Malpasso” by Fausta Cialente
   • “At the Station” by Carlo Cassola
   • “The Golden Nut” by Cristina Campo
   • “Dialogue with a Tortoise” by Italo Calvino
   • “And Yet They Are Knocking at Your Door” by Dino Buzzati
   • “The Miraculous Beach, or, Prize for Modesty” by Massimo Bontempelli
   • “A Geographical Error” by Romano Bilenchi
   • “The Streetwalker” by Luciano Bianciardi
   • “Miss” by Anna Banti
   • “The Baboon” by Giovanni Arpino
   • “Barefoot” by Corrado Alvaro

Notes
Chronology
Further Reading
Acknowledgments
About the Translators

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Penguin Classics
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0241299837
• ISBN 13: 9780241299838
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 528
• Éditeur: Lahiri Jhumpa
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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