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

Words in Commotion: And Other Stories

Literature & Fiction

Landolfi, Tommaso

Short Stories & Anthologies

Penguin??Books

Much admired in Europe, Landolfi has been called "the Italian Kafka"; he is often linked with the Surrealists, and in the intellectual quality of his fantasy there are certain affinities with Borges; but beyond these superficial comparisons, his is a truly unique––and fascinating––art. It is based in a prodigious imagination, a very curious sense of humor and a rare command of irony. In 1964, with the stories of Gogol’s Wife, New Directions introduced English language readers to the indelibly strange Italian master Tommaso Landolfi. Each tale is more astonishing than the next (what with a sacrilegious ape and an inflatable wife), though the stories are all delivered in a smooth and oddly decorous way. Casting its spell, this combination of the outré and the well-mannered unnerves the reader. The stories’ duality is the stuff of nightmares, though the author’s real nightmare, according to his champion Italo Calvino, is 'that nothingness does not exist.'

Gogol's Wife: & Other Stories

Contemporary

New Directions

In Italy toward the end of World War II, a fugitive partisan finds shelter in an eerie mansion, which he reluctantly shares with an aging aristocrat, and together they face the odd happenings caused by a resident spirit

An Autumn Story (Eridanos Library)

Neugroschel, Joachim

Marsilio Pub

Rien va

MIlano, 1984

Labrene

Literary

Adelphi Edizioni

Dialogo dei massimi sistemi

Adelphi

Le più belle pagine (Gli Adelphi)

Gogol' a Roma

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