Great Italian Short Stories of the Twentieth

This anthology highlights the rich range of modern Italian fiction, presenting the first English translations of works by many famous authors. Contents include stories by Italo Calvino, Elsa Morante, Alberto Moravia, and Cesare Pavese; historical fiction by Leonardo Sciascia and Mario Rigoni Stern; and lesser-known tales by Luigi Pirandello and Carlo Emilio Gadda.

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.

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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)
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Gianni Celati (1937– )
La bottega dei mimi / The Mimes’ Workshop

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Great Italian Short Stories of the Twentieth Century / I grandi racconti italiani del Novecento A Dual-Language Book

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