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Italy : a traveler's literary companion

Author: Lawrence Venuti
Publisher: Berkeley, CA : Whereabouts Press, ©2003.
Series: Traveler's literary companion.
Edition/Format:   Book : Fiction : English
Summary:
"Some of Italy's best-known writers join Italy's rising literary stars to take the reader on a panoramic tour of both city and countryside, across the social spectrum, surveying the country's rich cultural history. Explore Italy's popular tourist destinations and out-of-the-way spots under the fresh and even startling light cast by these eighteen diverse and exciting stories, most of which are available here in  Read more...
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Genre/Form: Translations into English
Fiction
Material Type: Fiction, Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Lawrence Venuti
ISBN: 1883513146 9781883513146
OCLC Number: 52477420
Description: xvii, 238 p. : 1 map ; 19 cm.
Contents: North: Turin, Portofino, Milan, Venice, Veneto, Trieste --
Summer / Natalia Ginzburg --
Well Off / Goffredo Parise --
The Bewitched Jacket / Dino Buzzati --
Deep Water / Marilia Mazzeo --
Built to Kill / Tiziano Scarpa --
Enchantment / Mario Rigoni Stern --
Music Lessons / Claudio Magris --
Center: Tuscany, Florence, Rome --
Wicked Memories / Barbara Alberti --
A Geographical Error / Romano Bilenchi --
A Bender / Federigo Tozzi --
Voices Borne by Something, Impossible to Say What / Antonio Tabucchi --
The Air of Rome / Lalla Romano --
The Lady with the Fan / Aldo Palazzeschi --
The Thinker / Alberto Moravia --
The Game / Luigi Malerba --
The Other Family / Dacia Maraini --
South: Naples, Capri, Calabria, Sicily --
Honeymoon in Naples / Corrado Alvaro --
The American Woman / Domenico Rea --
Noontide at Anacapri / Alberto Savinio --
My Civil Death / Massimo Bontempelli --
The Black Kid / Luigi Pirandello --
The Shawl / Maria Messina --
We're Talking Millions / Andrea Camilleri.
Series Title: Traveler's literary companion.
Responsibility: edited and translated by Lawrence Venuti.

Abstract:

"Some of Italy's best-known writers join Italy's rising literary stars to take the reader on a panoramic tour of both city and countryside, across the social spectrum, surveying the country's rich cultural history. Explore Italy's popular tourist destinations and out-of-the-way spots under the fresh and even startling light cast by these eighteen diverse and exciting stories, most of which are available here in English for the first time"--Publisher's description.
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