Roman italien -- 20e siècle

Zeno's Conscience: a novel

by Svevo, Italo

fromEveryman's library (Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.)

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Long hailed as a seminal work of modernism in the tradition of Joyce and Kafka, and now available in a supple new English translation, Italo Svevo's charming and splendidly idiosyncratic novel conducts readers deep into one hilariously hyperactive and endlessly self-deluding min…

Le rose di Natale: scrittrici italiane raccontano

by Rostellato, Diletta

fromNativitas

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Testi di Silvia Avallone, Isabella Bossi Fedrigotti, Contessa Lara, Grazia Deledda, Natalia Ginzburg, La Marchesa Colombi, Dacia Maraini, Ada Negri, Margherita Oggero. Con un testo introduttivo di Antonia Arslan, a cura di Diletta Rostellato. Il Natale è il ricordo di una "felic…

Marcovaldo, or, The seasons in the city

by Calvino, Italo

fromHelen and Kurt Wolff book

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An unskilled worker in a drab northern Italian industrial city of the 1950s and 1960s, Marcovaldo has a practiced eye for spotting natural beauty and an unquenchable longing to come a little closer to the unspoiled world of his imagining. Much to the puzzlement of his wife, his …

Questo romanzo e il primo che ho scritto ... Inventai una storia che restasse in margine alla guerra partigiana, ai suoi eroismi e sacrifici, ma nello stesso tempo ne rendesse il colore, l'aspro sapore, il ritmo ...-Presentazione.

The path to the nest of spiders

by Calvino, Italo

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A young orphan who joins the Italian Resistance against the occupying forces from Germany during World War II discovers some spiders nests in which he hides a gun that he steals from a German soldier.

Foucault's pendulum

by Eco, Umberto

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Three editors conspire to devise a plan of their own about European history. As they feed all the information into their computer, they think it is a terrific joke--until people begin to mysteriously disappear.

The island of the day before

by Eco, Umberto

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A 17th century Italian knight recounts his adventures during a siege in the Thirty Years' War and afterwards in naval espionage against the British. In between, he describes the salons of Paris, lessons in fencing and reasons of state, and gives his thoughts on writing love lett…