The Blind Man & the Beauty: And Other Stories - Couverture souple

Loria, Arturo

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1931357102 ISBN 13 : 9781931357104

Editeur : Sheep Meadow Press,U.S., 2005

Synopsis

Book by Loria Arturo

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

With echoes of Boccaccio and Cervantes, Poe and Kafka, Arturo Loria tells stories of corpse-bearers and beggars, of jealous goats, aging coquettes, and traveling performers. Near-fables, these stories are populated with figures - called simply ""the waiter,"" ""the knife-grinder,"" ""the blind man,"" and ""the beauty"" - who move in a world seemingly unmarked by particular times and spaces. But despite Loria's frequent refusals of name and place and date, these characters are firmly located in the subtle, complex states of feeling that he portrays so masterfully. Through careful studies of shame and self-loathing, exoticism and scapegoating, isolation and corruption, Loria also pointedly addresses the individual and collective pathologies of fascist-era Italy. With David Tabbat's vivid and elegant translation of these stories, Loria's fiction, long-acclaimed in Italy, is available for the first time in English.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Sheep Meadow Press,U.S.
• Date d'édition: 2005
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1931357102
• ISBN 13: 9781931357104
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 316
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible