Further Reading

The following list contains a few short-story collections, in English, by Italian authors active during the twentieth century whose work is not included in this volume, as well as a selection of English-language anthologies.

Individual Authors

Bassani, Giorgio, Within the Walls: Five Stories from Ferrara, trans. Jamie McKendrick. London: Penguin Classics, 2016

D’Annunzio, Gabriele, Nocturne and Five Tales of Love and Death, trans. Raymond Rosenthal. London: Quartet, 1994

Pasolini, Pier Paolo, Stories from the City of God: Sketches and Chronicles of Rome 1950–1966, ed. Walter Siti, trans. Marina Harss. London: Penguin, 2019

Anthologies

Italian Literature in Translation, ed. James E. Miller Jr, Robert O’Neal and Helen M. McDonnell. With an introductory essay: ‘Translation: The Art of Failure’, John Ciardi. Glenview, IL: Scott, Foresman, 1970

Italian Short Stories, vol. 1, Penguin Parallel Texts Series, ed. Raleigh Trevelyan. London: Penguin, 1989

Italian Short Stories, vol. 2, Penguin Parallel Texts Series, ed. Dimitri Vittorini. London: Penguin, 1993

Italian Tales: An Anthology of Contemporary Italian Fiction, ed. Massimo Riva. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2004

Italy: A Traveler’s Literary Companion, ed. and trans. Lawrence Venuti. Berkeley, CA: Whereabouts Press, 2003

Modern Italian Short Stories, ed. Marc Slonim. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1954

Modern Italian Stories, ed. and trans. W. J. Strachan. London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1955

Name and Tears and Other Stories: Forty Years of Italian Fiction, ed. and trans. Katherine Jason. St Paul, MN: Greywolf Press, 1990

New Italian Women: A Collection of Short Fiction, ed. Martha King. New York: Italica Press, 2008

Open City: Seven Writers in Postwar Rome, ed. William Weaver. South Royalton, VT: Steerforth Italian, 1999

The Penguin Book of Italian Short Stories, ed. Guido Waldman. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1969

Rome Tales: Stories, selected and trans. Hugh Shankland; ed. Helen Constantine. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2011

Short Stories in Italian, New Penguin Parallel Texts Series, ed. Nick Roberts. London: Penguin, 1999

Stories of Modern Italy, from Verga, Svevo and Pirandello to the Present, ed. Ben Johnson. New York: Modern Library, 1960

Twentieth-century Italian Literature in English Translation: An Annotated Bibliography 1929–1997, ed. Robin Healey. Toronto; Buffalo; London: University of Toronto Press, 1998

Unspeakable Women: Selected Short stories written by Italian Women during Fascism, trans., and with an introduction and afterword by Robin Pickering-Iazzi. New York: The Feminist Press at CUNY, 1993

Acknowledgements

Nearly every story I discovered, considered and eventually included in this volume arrived by word of mouth, by way of a friend or acquaintance who urged me to read a certain writer. I therefore begin by thanking the following people: Daniela Angelucci, Sara Antonelli, Maria Baiocchi, Andrea Bajani, Paola Basirico, Marco Belpoliti, Ginevra Bompiani, Caterina Bonvicini, Biagio Bossone, Patrizia Cavalli, Federica Cellini, Felice Cimatti, Leonardo Colombati, Fabrizio Corallo, Alessandro Cusimano, Angelo De Gennaro, Cristina Delogu, Maddalena Deodato, Tiziana de Rogatis, Paolo Di Paolo, Isabella Ferretti, Ilaria Freccia, Maria Ida Gaeta, Michela Gallio, Ornella Gargagliano, Francesca Virginia Geymonat, Ludovico Geymonat, Martino Gozzi, John Guare, Gioia Guerzoni, Francesca Marciano, Claudia Marques de Abreu, Melania Mazzucco, Chiara Mezzalama, Michela Murgia, Gabriele Pedullà, Anita Raja, Mario Raja, Antonio Ria, Marina Sagona, Italo Spinelli, Chiara Valerio, Pietro Valsecchi and Giorgio van Straten.