Great Italian Short Stories of the Twentieth Century

• IntroductionTranslator’s NoteAcknowledgments Luigi Pirandello (1867– 1936)La vita nuda / Naked LifeFederigo Tozzi (1883– 1920)Il crocifisso / The Crucifix Carlo Emilio Gadda (1893– 1973)La cenere delle battaglie / The Ash of Distant BattlesDino Buzzati (1906– 1972)Un uomo importante / An Important ManAlberto Moravia (1907– 1990)Mi chiamo Alice sono una trottola / My Name is Alice I am a Spinning TopTommaso Landolfi (1908– 1979)Animalini / Little Animals Cesare Pavese (1908– 1950)La zingara / The Gypsy WomanElsa Morante (1912– 1985)Il ladro dei lumi / The Thief of LightsLeonardo Sciascia (1921– 1989)Arrivano i nostri / Our Men are ArrivingMario Rigoni Stern (1921– 2008)Bepi, un richiamato del ’13 / Bepi, a Recalled Reservist from 1913Giorgio Manganelli (1922– 1990)La cartolina / The PostcardItalo Calvino (1923– 1985)Il crollo del tempo: su alcuni disegni di Saul Steinberg / The Collapse of Time (on some drawings by Saul Steinberg) Luigi Malerba (1927– 2008)La difesa della lingua / The Defense of ItalianGoffredo Parise (1929– 1986)33/ 33Gianni Celati (1937– )La bottega dei mimi / The Mimes’ Workshop

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