Italian Short Stories 1 Racconti Italiani 1

The eight stories in this collection, by Moravian, Pavese, Pratolina, and other modern writers, have been selected as being representative of contemporary Italian writing. The English translations provided are literal rather than literary, and there are notes and biographies to help the student of Italian. However, the volume can also be helpful to Italians, who can improve their English by studying a strict rendering of stories with which they may already be familiar.

 

Table of contents

Introduction

THE REMOVALv
asco Pratolini (1913-91) translated by Pamela Swinglehurst

HOUSES
Cesare Pavese (1908-50) translated by Alexander Fainberg

THE POOR
Carlo Cassola (1917-87) translated by Anthony Rhodes

BIG FISH, LITTLE FISH
Italo Calvino (1923-87) translated by Archibald Colquhoun

THE ASH OF BATTLES PAST
Carlo Emilio Gadda (1893-1973) translated by I.M. Rawson

THE MOTHER
Natalia Ginzburg (1916-69) translated by Isabel Quigly

ANGUISH
Alberto Moravia (1907-90) translated by Angus Davidson

FOOTSTEPS IN THE SNOW
Mario Soldati (1906- ) translated by Gwyn Morris

Notes on Italian Texts