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  1. Introduced, edited and with selected translations by Jhumpa Lahiri
  2. Contents
  3. About the Author
  4. A Note on the Citation of Titles and Their Translations
  5. Introduction
  6. Elio Vittorini
  7. Name and Tears
  8. Giovanni Verga
  9. Picturesque Lives
  10. Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
  11. The Siren
  12. Antonio Tabucchi
  13. Against Time
  14. Italo Svevo
  15. Generous Wine
  16. Leonardo Sciascia
  17. The Long Voyage
  18. Alberto Savinio
  19. Bago
  20. Umberto Saba
  21. The Hen
  22. Lalla Romano
  23. The Lady
  24. Fabrizia Ramondino
  25. The Tower
  26. Luigi Pirandello
  27. The Trap
  28. Cesare Pavese
  29. Wedding Trip
  30. Goffredo Parise
  31. Melancholy
  32. Aldo Palazzeschi
  33. Silence
  34. Anna Maria Ortese
  35. A Pair of Eyeglasses
  36. Alberto Moravia
  37. The Other Side of the Moon
  38. Elsa Morante
  39. The Ambitious Ones
  40. Giorgio Manganelli
  41. Sixteen, Twenty-one, Twenty-eight and Thirty-seven from Centuria
  42. Primo Levi
  43. Quaestio de Centauris
  44. Tommaso Landolfi
  45. Gogol’s Wife
  46. Natalia Ginzburg
  47. My Husband
  48. Carlo Emilio Gadda
  49. The Mother
  50. Ennio Flaiano
  51. A Martian in Rome
  52. Beppe Fenoglio
  53. The Smell of Death
  54. Luce D’eramo
  55. Life as a Couple
  56. Antonio Delfini
  57. The Milliner
  58. Grazia Deledda
  59. The Hind
  60. Alba De Céspedes
  61. Invitation to Dinner
  62. Silvio D’arzo
  63. Elegy for Signora Nodier
  64. Fausta Cialente
  65. Malpasso
  66. Carlo Cassola
  67. At the Station
  68. Cristina Campo
  69. The Golden Nut
  70. Italo Calvino
  71. Dialogue with a Tortoise
  72. Dino Buzzati
  73. And Yet They Are Knocking at Your Door
  74. Massimo Bontempelli
  75. The Miraculous Beach, or, Prize for Modesty
  76. Romano Bilenchi
  77. A Geographical Error
  78. Luciano Bianciardi
  79. The Streetwalker
  80. Anna Banti
  81. Miss
  82. Giovanni Arpino
  83. The Baboon
  84. Corrado Alvaro
  85. Barefoot
  86. Notes
  87. Chronology
  88. Further Reading
  89. Acknowledgements
  90. Copyright Information
  91. About the Translators
  92. THE BEGINNING

Dino Buzzati

‘Eppure battono alla porta’ from Opere scelte. Edited by Giulio Carnazzi (Milano: Mondadori, i Meridiani, 2009). Copyright © Estate of Dino Buzzati, 1942. Translation © Judith Landry and Alma Books Ltd, 2018

Italo Calvino

‘Dialogo con una tartaruga’ from Romanzi e racconti, vol. III: Racconti sparsi e altri scritti d’invenzione. General editor Claudio Milanini, volume edited by Mario Barenghi and Bruno Falcetto. (Milano: Mondadori, i Meridiani, 2010). Copyright © 2002, the Estate of Italo Calvino, used by permission of The Wylie Agency (UK) Limited. Translation © Jhumpa Lahiri and Sara Teardo, 2019

Cristina Campo

‘La noce d’oro’ from Sotto falso nome (Milano: Adelphi, 1998). Copyright ©1988 Adelphi Edizioni, Milano. Translation © Jenny McPhee, 2019

Carlo Cassola

‘Alla stazione’ from La visita (Milano: Mondadori, 2013). Copyright © 2013 Arnoldo Mondadori Editore S.p.A., Milano. © 2015 Mondadori Libri S.p.A., Milano. Translation © Jhumpa Lahiri, 2019

Fausta Cialente

‘Malpasso’ from Interno con figure (Pordenone: Edizioni Studio Tesi, 1991). Published by permission of the Estate. Copyright ©1982 Fausta Cialente; ©1994 heirs of Fausta Cialente. Translation © Jenny McPhee, 2019

Silvio D’Arzo

‘Elegia alla signora Nodier’ from Casa d’altri e altri racconti (Torino: Einaudi, 2007). © 1980, 1999, 2007, 2013 Giulio Einaudi editore s.p.a., Torino. This translation was first published in The House of Others by The Marlboro Press, Northwestern University Press, in 1995. Translation copyright © 1995 by Keith Botsford.

Alba De Céspedes

‘Invito a pranzo’ from Opere, vol. IV: Invito a pranzo (Milano: Mondadori, 1966). Copyright © Estate of Alba De Céspedes, 1955. Translation © Michael F. Moore, 2019

Grazia Deledda

‘La cerbiatta’ from Romanzi e novelle. Edited by Natalino Sapegno (Milano: Mondadori, i Meridiani, 2004). Translation © Erica Segre and Simon Carnell, 2019

Antonio Delfini

‘La modista’ from Autore ignoto presenta: Racconti scelti e introdotti da Gianni Celati (Torino: Einaudi, 2008). Translation © Ann Goldstein, 2019

Luce d’Eramo

‘Vivere in due’ from Tutti i racconti. Edited by Cecilia Bello Minciacchi (Roma: Elliot, 2013). Translation © Howard Curtis, 2019

Beppe Fenoglio

‘L’odore della morte’ from Tutti i racconti. Edited by Luca Bufano (Torino: Einaudi, 2018). Copyright © Estate of Beppe Fenoglio, 1952. Published by arrangement with The Italian Literary Agency. Translation © John Shepley, 2002

Ennio Flaiano

‘Un marziano a Roma’ from Opere scelte. Edited by Anna Longoni (Milano: Adelphi, 2010). Translation and Note from the Translators © Philip Balma and Fabio Benincasa, 2006. This translation was first published in Italica, Vol. 83 No. 1, Spring 2006.

Carlo Emilio Gadda

‘La mamma’ from Romanzi e racconti, vol. II. General editor Dante Isella (Milano: Garzanti, 2007). Translation © Richard Dixon, 2019

Ginzburg

‘Mio marito’ from Le piccole virtù. Edited by Domenico Scarpa (Torino: Einaudi, 2015). Copyright © 1964, 1993, 2012, 2016 Giulio Einaudi editore s.p.a., Torino. Translation by Paul Lewis © University of Toronto Press, 2011

Tommaso Landolfi

‘La moglie di Gogol’ from Ombre (Milano: Adelphi, 1994). Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp. Translation © Wayland Young, 1963

Levi

‘Quaestio de Centauris’ from Tutti i racconti. Edited by Marco Belpoliti (Torino: Einaudi, 2015). Used by permission of Liveright Publishing Corporation. Translation from The Complete Works Of Primo Levi © Jenny McPhee, 2015