by Roberto Calasso Translated by T Parks Original title: Le nozze di Cadmo e Armonia
Roberto Calasso is the editorial director of the respected Milan publishing house Adelphi Edizioni and a well-known intellectual and literary figure both in Italy and abroad. He has been nicknamed ‘l’anti-Eco’ — the ‘anti-Umberto Eco’ — by the Italian press. (more...)
by Fleur Jaeggy Translated by T Parks Original title: Beati anni di castigo
This is the evocation of a self-absorbed childhood in an atmosphere bleached by memory and the passage of the years. The narrator awaits her release from a dull boarding school in which everything seems to have been programmed and pre-ordained. (more...)
by Alberto Moravia Translated by T Parks Original title: L’uomo che guarda
This is the story of a ‘man who lives through his eyes’. On the one hand it’s a wry exploration of the mechanics of a certain dimension of the erotic, (more...)
by Alberto Moravia Translated by T Parks Original title: La cosa ed altri racconti
Written late in his career (late in his life in fact), Moravia’s Erotic Tales seem at first to be exercises in writing that use the erotic as a peg — the exercises of an experienced master-narrator, playfully executed and highly readable. Some of the stories, though, (more...)
by Italo Calvino Translated by T Parks Original title: La strada di San Giovanni
One of several posthumously-published works of Calvino (who died in 1985), that were assembled from unfinished manuscripts, Road To San Giovanni collects various autobiographical pieces. There’s his account of his early love-affair with film, (more...)
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