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Cold Tales (1956) [Buy Direct]

by Virgilio Piñera
Translated by Mark Schafer
Original title: Cuentos fríos

René’s Flesh (1952) [Buy Direct]

by Virgilio Piñera
Translated by M Schafer
Original title: La carne de René

Posthumous Papers of a Living Author [Buy Direct]

by Robert Musil
Translated by P Wortsman
Original title: Nachlass zu Lebzeiten

Musil is especially celebrated for his long major work The Man without Qualities, reviewed above. This book is rather the opposite, (more...)

Count D’orgel’s Ball [Buy Direct]

by Raymond Radiguet
Translated by V Schiff

Childhood of Nivasio Dolcemare [Buy Direct]

by Alberto Savinio
Original title: Infanzia di Nivasio Dolcemare

The author’s name is hidden anagramatically in the protagonist’s first name; ‘Dolcemare’ is the mythic and sacred place where his childhood was lived, the marine landscape of Greece. But the author’s name is itself a borrowed one, (more...)

Invisible Player [Buy Direct]

by Giuseppe Pontiggia
Translated by A Cancogni
Original title: Il giocatore invisibile

One, None and a Hundred Thousand.

by Luigi Pirandello
Translated by William Weaver
Original title: Uno, nessuno e centomila

One, None and a Hundred Thousand.

by Luigi Pirandello

Pirandello’s last novel, first published in 1927, is the work of his that most elucidates his thought. The story revolves around Vitangelo Moscarda, (more...)

The Late Mattia Pascal [Buy Direct]

by Luigi Pirandello
Translated by William Weaver
Original title: Il fù Mattia Pascal

Autumn Story [Buy Direct]

by Tommaso Landolfi
Translated by Joachim Neugroschel
Original title: Racconto d’autunno

Landolfi’s only novel to appear in English will please those who like Gothic: though written by a contemporary writer (he died in 1975) and set in the mid-twentieth century, the novel seems a throwback to that nineteenth-century genre. This is a book about strange passions, obsession, solitude, (more...)

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