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William Weaver

Works by William Weaver

How to Travel with a Salmon & Other Essays [Buy Direct]

by Umberto Eco and William Weaver and Diane Sterling

Translations by William Weaver

The Heron [Buy Direct]

by Giorgio Bassani
Translated by William Weaver
Original title: L’airone

The protagonist of this psychological novel personifies the post-liberation (1945) generation in Italy and the frustration of the ideals experienced in those years. Bassani follows a day in the life of Edgardo Limentani — his last day. It’s a long, (more...)

Under the Jaguar Sun [Buy Direct]

by Italo Calvino
Translated by William Weaver
Original title: Sotto il sole giaguaro

A short unfinished work but nevertheless a fabulous descent into the world of the senses. This book comes from the period when Calvino was such an established artist that he could experiment and still command an audience. As with Invisible Cities, this is the kind of writing, (more...)

Marcovaldo: or, The Seasons in the City [Buy Direct]

by Italo Calvino
Translated by William Weaver
Original title: Marcovaldo

This is one of Calvino’s chronicles of a changing Italy. Marcovaldo is a Candide-like naïf observer of urban life. He has the heart of a countryman but, to make a living, has to live in an ugly and polluted Northern city. In a gentle, humorous way, (more...)

Invisible Cities [Buy Direct]

by Italo Calvino
Translated by William Weaver
Original title: Città invisibili

Mr Palomar [Buy Direct]

by Italo Calvino
Translated by William Weaver
Original title: Palomar

Cosmicomics [Buy Direct]

by Italo Calvino
Translated by William Weaver
Original title: Cosmicomiche

Remorse [Buy Direct]

by Alba de Cespedes
Translated by William Weaver
Original title: Rimorso

The Name of the Rose [Buy Direct]

by Umberto Eco
Translated by William Weaver
Original title: Il nome della rosa

That Awful Mess on the via Merulana [Buy Direct]

by Carlo Emilio Gadda
Translated by William Weaver
Original title: Quer pasticciaccio brutto de via Me

Written in a polyphony of voices and dialects, Gadda’s detective stories are unique in Italian literature. This story is a real ‘mess’, dominated by the figure of an investigator, Doctor Francesco Ingravallo, (more...)

If Not Now, When? [Buy Direct]

by Primo Levi
Translated by William Weaver
Original title: Se non ora, quando?

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