Author: Italo SvevoPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
The Nice Old Man and the Pretty Girl and Other Stories
Author: Italo SvevoThe Nice Old Man and the Pretty Girl, and Other Stories [by] Italo Svevo [pseud.].
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Author: Italo SvevoShort Sentimental Journey and Other Stories
Author: Italo SvevoPublisher: Univ of California Press
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Category : Italy
Languages : en
Pages : 324
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The Nice Old Man and the Pretty Girl
Author: Italo SvevoPublisher: Melville House
ISBN: 1933633891
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
...the sin of an old man is equal to about two sins of a young man. The fable-like story of an old man's sexual obsession with a young woman is a distillation of Italo Svevo's concerns--attraction of an older man to a younger woman, individual conscience versus social convention, and the cost of sexual desire. This novella is a marvel of psychological insight, following the man's vacillations and tortuous self-justifications to their tragic-comic end. It is presented here in a translation first commissioned and published by Virginia Woolf for her Hogarth Press. The Art of The Novella Series Too short to be a novel, too long to be a short story, the novella is generally unrecognized by academics and publishers. Nonetheless, it is a form beloved and practiced by literature's greatest writers. In the Art Of The Novella series, Melville House celebrates this renegade art form and its practitioners with titles that are, in many instances, presented in book form for the first time.
The Cossacks and Other Stories
Author: Leo TolstoyPublisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141926872
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
In 1851, at the age of twenty-two, Tolstoy joined the Russian army and travelled to the Caucasus as a soldier. The four years that followed were among the most significant in his life, and deeply influenced the stories collected here. Begun in 1852 but unfinished for a decade, The Cossacks describes the experiences of Olenin, a young cultured Russian who comes to despise civilization after spending time with the wild Cossack people. Sevastopol Sketches, based on Tolstoy's own experiences of the siege of Sevastopol in 1854-55, is a compelling consideration of the nature of war, while Hadji Murat, written towards the end of his life, returns to the Caucasus of Tolstoy's youth to explore the life of a great leader torn apart by a conflict of loyalties. Written at the end of the nineteenth century, it is amongst the last and greatest of Tolstoy's shorter works.
The Nice Old Man & the Pretty Girl
Author: Italo SvevoDimanche and Other Stories
Author: Irene NemirovskyPublisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307739317
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
A never-before-translated collection by the bestselling author of Suite Française Written between 1934 and 1942, these ten gem-like stories mine the same terrain of Némirovsky's bestselling novel Suite Française: a keen eye for the details of social class; the tensions between mothers and daughters, husbands and wives; the manners and mannerisms of the French bourgeoisie; questions of religion and personal identity. Moving from the drawing rooms of pre-war Paris to the lives of men and women in wartime France, here we find the beautiful work of a writer at the height of her tragically short career.
Laughter from Realism to Modernism
Author: Alberto GodioliPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351191012
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
"As best exemplified by the works of Pirandello, Svevo, Palazzeschi, and Gadda, Italian modernist fiction is particularly rich in bizarre and ludicrous characters, whose originality is often derided by a uniform society. On the other hand, laughter can also be used by the author (or by the misfits themselves) as a reaction to the levelling pressure of social life - Pirandello's umorismo, Svevo's irony, Palazzeschi's controdolore, and Gadda's satire are all good cases in point. Looked at from this perspective, early 20th-century Italian fiction can set the basis for an innovative reflection on broader comparative themes. What is the role of laughter and individual diversity in international Modernism? How is modernist eccentricity related to the representations of originality in the 18th and 19th centuries, from Sterne to Balzac and Dostoevsky? And what does it tell us about the fear of homogenisation as a crucial aspect of the modern social imaginary? Building on the analysis of a large corpus of short stories and other major works by the Italian authors at issue, as well as on a series of previously undetected intertextual links with the classics of European Realism, this book is the first systematic attempt at answering such questions. Alberto Godioli is Teaching Fellow in Italian at the University of Edinburgh."
The Revolt of "Mother" and Other Stories
Author: Mary E. Wilkins FreemanPublisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486158381
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Eight vivid, poignant tales of self-reliant New England women. Well-known title story plus "A New England Nun," "Old Woman Magoun," "Gentian," "One Good Time," plus 3 others.
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