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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

Giorgio Manganelli

‘Sixteen’, ‘Twenty-one’, ‘Twenty-eight’ and ‘Thirty-seven’ from Centuria (Milano: Adelphi, 2016). Used by permission of the publisher, McPherson & Company, Kingston, New York. Translation of parts of Centuria: One Hundred Ouboric Novels © Henry Martin, 2005

Elsa Morante

‘La ambiziose’ from Racconti dimenticati Edited by Irene Babboni (Torino: Einaudi, 2004). Published by arrangement with The Italian Literary Agency. Translation © Erica Segre and Simon Carnell, 2019

Alberto Moravia

‘L’altra faccia della luna’ from Boh (Milano: Bompiani, 2000). Published by arrangement with Giunti Editore S.p.A. Translation © Michael F. Moore, 2019

Anna Maria Ortese

‘Un paio di occhiali’ from Il mare non bagna Napoli (Milano: Adelphi, 2008). Copyright © Adelphi Edizioni, Milano, 1994. Translation © Ann Goldstein and Jenny McPhee, 2018

Aldo Palazzeschi

‘Silenzio’ from Tutte le novelle. Edited by Luciano de Maria, preface by Giansiro Ferrata (Milano: Mondadori, i Meridiani, 2003). Copyright © 1975 Arnoldo Mondadori Editore S.p.A., Milano. Translation © Erica Segre and Simon Carnell, 2019

Goffredo Parise

‘Malinconia’ from Opere, vol. II, edited by Bruno Callegher and Mauro Portello, with an introduction by Andrea Zanzotto (Milano: Mondadori, i Meridiani, 2005). Copyright © Estate of Goffredo Parise. Translation © Jhumpa Lahiri, 2019

Cesare Pavese

‘Viaggio di nozze’ from Tutti i racconti. Edited by Mariarosa Masoero (Torino: Einaudi, 2018). Copyright © Giulio Einaudi Editore, 1946, 1953, 1960. Translation © A. E. Murch, 1946, 1966

Luigi Pirandello

‘La trappola’ from Novelle per un anno. Edited by Sergio Campailla (Roma: Newton Compton Editori, 2016). Translation © Giovanni R. Bussino, 1988

Fabrizia Ramondino

‘La torre’ from Arcangelo e altri racconti (Torino: Einaudi, 2005). Translation and notes © Jhumpa Lahiri, 2019

Lalla Romano

‘La signora’ from Opere, vol II. Edited by Cesare Segre (Milano: Mondadori, i Meridiani, 2009). Published by arrangement with The Italian Literary Agency. Translation © Jhumpa Lahiri, 2019

Umberto Saba

‘La gallina’ from Tutte le prose. Edited by Arrigo Stara, introduction by Mario Lavagetto (Milano: Mondadori, i Meridiani, 2001). Translation © Howard Curtis, 2019

Alberto Savinio

‘Bago’ from Tutta la vita. Edited by Paola Italia (Milano: Adelphi, Piccola Biblioteca Adelphi series, 2011). Translation © Michael F. Moore, 2019

Leonardo Sciascia

‘Il lungo viaggio’ from Il mare colore del vino (Milano: Adelphi, 2011). Copyright © Estate of Leonardo Sciascia. Published by arrangement with The Italian Literary Agency. Translation © Erica Segre and Simon Carnell, 2019

Italo Svevo

‘Vino generoso’ from Tutte le opere, vol. II: Racconti e scritti autobiografici. General editor and introduced by Mario Lavagetto, edited by Clotilde Bertoni (Milano, Mondadori, i Meridiani, 2004). Translation © John Penuel, 2011

Antonio Tabucchi

‘Controtempo’ from Opere. Edited by Paolo Mauri and Thea Rimini (Milano, Mondadori, i Meridiani, 2018). Translation first appeared in Archipelago Books’ Time Ages in a Hurry. Translation © Martha Cooley and Anthony Romani, 2015

Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa

‘La Sirena’ from Opere. Introduced and with prefaces by Gioacchino Lanza Tomasi; I racconti, Letteratura inglese, Letteratura francese edited by Nicoletta Polo (Milano: Mondadori, i Meridiani, 2011). Copyright © Alma Books. This translation is published by permission of The Wylie Agency (UK) Limited. 2013. Translation © Stephen Twilley, 2014