Love in vain : selected stories of Federigo Tozzi / translated, with an introduction by Minna Proctor.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tozzi, Federigo, 1883-1920.

Contributor:

Proctor, Minna.

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

New Directions paperbook

Standardized Title:

Short stories. Selections. English

Language:

English

Italian

Subjects (All):

Tozzi, Federigo, 1883-1920--Translations into English.

Tozzi, Federigo.

Tozzi, Federigo, 1883-1920.

Genre:

Fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xxvi, 164 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : New Directions, 2001.

Language Note:

Translated from the Italian.

Summary:

The twenty stories of Love in Vain were selected and translated by Minna Proctor, who received the 1998 PEN/Renato Poggioli Award for her then unpublished renderings of Tozzi's fiction. "The investigation of naturalism, of truth", writes Proctor in her biographical introduction, "defined Tozzi's poetics. Impassioned by literature, yet isolated from the mainstream, Tozzi found nothing so fascinating as the unfettered expression of the inner lives of normal people". His work is at once a mixture of subtlety and melodrama, of psychological perception, primitive emotion, and raw physical need, as his plain subjects, yearning for connection and love, forever grasp at the unattainable.

Contents:

Federigo Tozzi / Minna Proctor vii

Love in Vain 1

Assunta 14

First Love 32

Mad for Music 39

Sister 46

L'Amore 51

The Boardinghouse 57

The Tavern 66

House for Sale 76

The Crucifix 85

Poverty 91

Dead Man in the Oven 99

Life 106

Vile Creatures 114

The Idiot 123

To Dream of Death 132

The Lovers 137

One Evening, on the Banks of the Tiber 143

The Miracle 150

The Clocks 157.

ISBN:

0811214710

OCLC:

45270445