A caso
by Landolfi, Tommaso
- Used
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Very Good- with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Plymouth, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
Milano: Rizzoli. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1975. 1 edizione. Trade Paperback. Two 1/4" tears to rear cover edge, spine creasing, corner bump, light tone, otherwise light wear. Solid trade paperback.; Italian language. A caso, a collection of short stories, won him the Strega Prize in 1975. "Non è amabilmente consolatore, il mondo di Landolfi, né amichevole, né tantomeno compiacente. Estraneo, piuttosto, luminosamente torbido e degradato. E, come in questa raccolta di racconti del 1975 l'ultima sua , più che mai urtante, percorso com'è da un eros luttuoso e sogghignante, da orride agnizioni, da avvilenti confessioni, da personaggi oltraggiati dalla vita, feriti dall'«invalicabile stridore» che li separa dagli altri, torturati da un'animale e irrimediabile tristezza. Sicché ogni racconto cela una sorpresa che ha su di noi lo stesso effetto di «un'unghia che stride contro un vetro, o d'una carezza contropelo» (I. Calvino): ci fa rabbrividire, e subito vorremmo scacciarla. Invano: incapsulata in una lingua tanto inconsueta quanto secca, lucida ed esatta, ogni immagine torna a riaffacciarsi, come una piccola testa malevola. Il fatto è che per Landolfi, uccisa ogni speranza, dobbiamo accontentarci «di gioie ambigue, torte e per giunta fuggevoli». Non c'è altra via di scampo, se non, estremo rimedio, un «genosuicidio» capace di liberarci da una «abominosa storia»." ; La Scala; 198 pages .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Mike's Library (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 15301
- Title
- A caso
- Author
- Landolfi, Tommaso
- Format/Binding
- Trade Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good- with no dust jacket
- Edition
- 1 edizione
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Rizzoli
- Place of Publication
- Milano
- Date Published
- 1975
- Keywords
- Italian Literature - 20th Century, Fantastic Fiction, Horror, Gothic Fiction, Monsters, Short Fiction
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Mike's Library
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Plymouth, Pennsylvania
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