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A caso

by Landolfi, Tommaso

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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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Bookseller
Mike's Library US (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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