Tommaso Landolfi

Gogol's Wife: & Other Stories (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Much admired in Europe, Landolfi has been called "the Italian Kafka"; he is often linked with the Surrealists, and in the intellectual quality of his fantasy there are certain affinities with Borges; but beyond these superficial comparisons, his is a truly uniqueand fascinatingart. It is based in a prodigious imagination, a very curious sense of humor and a rare command of irony.

In 1964, with the stories of Gogol's Wife, New Directions introduced English language readers to the indelibly strange Italian master Tommaso Landolfi. Each tale is more astonishing than the next (what with a sacrilegious ape and an inflatable wife), though the stories are all delivered in a smooth and oddly decorous way. Casting its spell, this combination of the outré and the well-mannered unnerves the reader. The stories' duality is the stuff of nightmares, though the author's real nightmare, according to his champion Italo Calvino, is 'that nothingness does not exist.'

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: New Directions
• Seitenzahl: 187
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Mai 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780811226493
• Artikelnr.: 59592875

Autorenporträt

Tommaso Landolfi was a Italian writer and translator. His collection of stories, Gogol's wife, was cited as a must read by Donald Barthelme.