Book description
This second volume of Italian Short Stories, with its parallel
translations aims - as the first volume did - to exemplify the richness
and variety of Italian writing of the twentieth century. In this volume,
however, some of the language used is a little more advanced and the
translations slightly less literal. Moravia and Calvino, both well known
to British and American readers, appear again along with Italo Svevo,
Comisso, Vittorini, Rigoni - Stern, Fenoglio and Pasolini so that the
literature of both Rome and the provinces is fully represented. There
are also discussions of the less familiar words and dialect expressions
in the Italian text.
