Goffredo Parise's quest to capture the essence of human sentiment in prose-poem form resulted in the publication in 1972 of SILLABARIO N. 1, which contained 22 stories with titles proceeding alphabetically. Characterized by the same clarity found in ABECEDARY, SOLITUDES is a series of exquisite miniatures that form a bittersweet exploration of the joy and the melancholy of life.

SOLITUDES

Literature & Fiction

Parise, Goffredo

Contemporary

Vintage

Solitudes: Short stories

Short Stories & Anthologies

Dent

Goffredo Parise's quest to capture the essence of human sentiment in prose-poem form resulted in the publication in 1972 of SILLABARIO N. 1, which contained 22 stories with titles proceeding alphabetically. Characterized by the same clarity found in ABECEDARY, SOLITUDES is a series of exquisite miniatures that form a bittersweet exploration of the joy and the melancholy of life.

Solitudes

Marlboro Press

In James Marcus's fluid translation, Abecedary's brief and moving vignettes combine a loving attention to the mundane and the everyday--meals and clothing, furniture and phone calls, flashes of landscape or weather--with an abundance of tangible detail, alluding always to that most intangible and fleeting of subjects: human feeling.

Abecedary

The Smell of Blood

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Shepley, John

Thrillers & Suspense

Marlboro Pr

A compelling tale of a husband's obsession with his wife's disastrous affair"A smell very similar to that of slaughterhouses at dawn, but infinitely sweeter and slightly nauseating, or rather, to be more precise, exhilarating."The smell of blood is really the smell of life. The psychiatrist narrating the story has the power to detect it.  His young mistress hungers for it.  And his middle-aged wife Silvia has just begun to emanate it--overpoweringly.Silvia has begun an affair with a violent young idler and neofascist who despises and exploits women.  At first her husband reacts with good humor--he has long been unfaithful himself.  But jealousy soon colors his curiosity, and his obsession with the details of Silvia's relationship leads to fantasies that become self-fulfilling prophecies.  At times coolly analytical, at others driven to know more, the narrator watches as Silvia's actions become more and more self-destructive.  When she becomes a slave to her lover's wishes the smell of blood grows stronger, and the odor of life becomes an omen of death.Goffredo Parise wrote The Smell of Blood in 1979 after suffering a heart attack.  Once finished he sealed the manuscript in lead and wax and did not look at it again until a few days before his death in 1986.  It was published posthumously in 1997 in Italy.

Literary

Product Description In James Marcus's fluid translation, Abecedary's brief and moving vignettes combine a loving attention to the mundane and the everyday--meals and clothing, furniture and phone calls, flashes of landscape or weather--with an abundance of tangible detail, alluding always to that most intangible and fleeting of subjects: human feeling. Amazon.com Review In each of these 22 miniatures, the Italian author focuses on a particular emotion and illustrates it with a short (very short) story. Parise is a master of the luminous detail, whether he's zooming in on a meal, a kiss, or a thunderstorm. Yet the cumulative effect of these details is surprisingly powerful, and an object lesson to Parise's minimalist cousins in this country. Review "Exquisite miniatures . . . some of Goffredo Parise's work is as subtle as James Joyce's." --New York Times Book Review"Hypnotic, mood-inducing stories that cast a hard spell to shake." --Kirkus Reviews About the Author Goffredo Parise was born in Italy in 1929. During his lifetime he published over a dozen volumes: novels, collections of stories, and essays. He died in 1986.James Marcus, a translator, critic, and writer, lives in Seattle.Natalia Ginzburg is the author of several works including Picolle Virtu (Little Virtues) and Famiglia (Family). She lives in Italy.

Gli Americani a Vicenza e altri racconti, 1952-1965 (Scrittori italiani e stranieri) (Italian Edition)

A. Mondadori

L'eleganza è frigida

Adelphi

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