Many of our most iconic fairy tales--"Puss in Boots," "Sleeping Beauty"--were first written down in the late 17th century, by the French courtier Charles Perrault. THE COMPLETE FAIRY TALES collects these magical stories.
Abbe Jules, first published in 1888, is the second part of Octave Mirbeau's autobiographical trilogy and tells the story of a priest's lifelong struggle with his passions. Narrated from the viewpoint of a small boy, it depicts the stifling atmosphere of petit bourgeois, provincial France, where family, education and religion conspire to produce ...
Serafino Gubbio has the perfect job for this: he is, in the language of the early twentieth-century, "a cinematograph operator." He watches. He is the impersonal tool of a new industry based on make believe, and he turns the crank of the camera, noting, uncomprehendingly, the cruel and strange displays before him. In Rome of 1915, Serafino Gubbio ...
Four major Italian writers raised in the shadow of fascism - Cesare Pavese, Primo Levi, Natalia Ginzburg and Francesca Sanvitale - are the focus of this examination of the 'unsaid' in modern Italian narrative. Post-war and free of official censorship, these writers nonetheless show signs of constraint and omission in their work. Are the gaps a ...
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