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Description:Tommaso Landolfi, Italy's most extraordinarily idiosyncratic storyteller, has been compared to Kafka, Joyce, Borges, and Poe; his fictions are a striking blend of fact and fantasy, the disturbing and the playful. This wonderful collection of twenty-four stories is unpredictable, funny, bizarre, and, especially, imaginative: a writer innocently brushes his teeth and out spill dozens of mutinous words, demanding new meanings; a man pursues a perverse fantasy inspired by the sight of a woman's breast; a struggling poet discovers, to his horror, that he has been composing in a nonexistent language. Sharply observed details, startling whimsy, and a subtle seriousness inform these tales that test the boundaries of language and invite us to view existence in a different light.Titles within:- Introduction: Precision and Chance, by Italo Calvino- The Labrenas- Chicken Fate- Two Wakes- The Kiss- Gogol's Wife- The Werewolf- The Provincial Night- Maria Guiseppa- Uxoricide- The Test- The Ampulla- A Woman's Breast- The Eternal Province- Prefigurations: Prato- Literary Prize- The Grace of God- Prize in Spite Of- Rain- The Eclipse- The Gnat- An Abstract Concept- Personaphilologicaldramatic Conference with Implications- Dialogue of Greater Systems- Words in Commotion- Translators AfterwordWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Words in Commotion and Other Stories. To get started finding Words in Commotion and Other Stories, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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ISBN: 0140094776

Description: Tommaso Landolfi, Italy's most extraordinarily idiosyncratic storyteller, has been compared to Kafka, Joyce, Borges, and Poe; his fictions are a striking blend of fact and fantasy, the disturbing and the playful. This wonderful collection of twenty-four stories is unpredictable, funny, bizarre, and, especially, imaginative: a writer innocently brushes his teeth and out spill dozens of mutinous words, demanding new meanings; a man pursues a perverse fantasy inspired by the sight of a woman's breast; a struggling poet discovers, to his horror, that he has been composing in a nonexistent language. Sharply observed details, startling whimsy, and a subtle seriousness inform these tales that test the boundaries of language and invite us to view existence in a different light.Titles within:- Introduction: Precision and Chance, by Italo Calvino- The Labrenas- Chicken Fate- Two Wakes- The Kiss- Gogol's Wife- The Werewolf- The Provincial Night- Maria Guiseppa- Uxoricide- The Test- The Ampulla- A Woman's Breast- The Eternal Province- Prefigurations: Prato- Literary Prize- The Grace of God- Prize in Spite Of- Rain- The Eclipse- The Gnat- An Abstract Concept- Personaphilologicaldramatic Conference with Implications- Dialogue of Greater Systems- Words in Commotion- Translators AfterwordWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Words in Commotion and Other Stories. To get started finding Words in Commotion and Other Stories, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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