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Words in commotion and other stories / Tommaso Landolfi ; with an introduction by Italo Calvino ; translated and edited by Kathrine Jason.

Van Pelt Library PQ4827.A57 A24 1986
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Landolfi, Tommaso, 1908-1979.
Contributor:
Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
Jason, Kathrine.
Standardized Title:
Piu belle pagine. English
Language:
English
Italian
Subjects (All):
Landolfi, Tommaso, 1908-1979--Translations into English.
Landolfi, Tommaso.
Landolfi, Tommaso, 1908-1979.
Italy--Social life and customs--Fiction.
Italy.
Manners and customs.
Genre:
Fiction.
Translations.
Penn Provenance:
Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)
Physical Description:
xxiii, 275 pages ; 22 cm
Place of Publication:
New York, N.Y. : Viking, 1986.
Contents:
Introduction : Precision and Chance / Italo Calvino
Labrenas
Chicken fate
Two wakes
The kiss
Gogol's wife
The werewolf
The provincial night
Maria Giuseppa
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 the greater system
Words in commotion.
Local Notes:
Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2 have dustjacket retained.
Gotham Book Mart Collection copy 2 has Gotham Book Mart & Gallery bookmark laid in.
Other Format:
Online version: Landolfi, Tommaso, 1908-1979. Words in commotion and other stories.
ISBN:
0670805181
9780670805181
OCLC:
13582705

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