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Tommaso Landolfi, Italy's most extraordinarily idiosyncratic storyteller, has been compared to Kafka, Joyce, Borges, and Poe; his fictions are a striking blend of fact and fantasy, the disturbing and the playful. This collection of twenty-four stories is unpredictable, funny, bizarre, and, especially, imaginative: a writer innocently brushes his teeth and out spill dozens of mutinous words, demanding new meanings; a man pursues a perverse fantasy inspired by the sight of a woman's breast; a struggling poet discovers, to his horror, that he has been composing in a nonexistent language. Sharply observed details, startling whimsy, and a subtle seriousness inform these tales that test the boundaries of language and invite us to view existence in a different light.
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Words in Commotion and Other Stories, Tommaso Landolfi
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- Erscheinungsdatum
- 1986
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- Titel
- Words in Commotion and Other Stories
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Autor*innen
- Tommaso Landolfi
- Verlag
- Viking
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 1986
- Einband
- Hardcover
- ISBN10
- 0670805181
- ISBN13
- 9780670805181
- Reihe
- Schlagwörter
- Belletristik, Fantasy, Kurzgeschichten, Südeuropa, Italien, Italienische Literatur
- Bewertung
- 3,55 von 5 Sternen
- Beschreibung
- Tommaso Landolfi, Italy's most extraordinarily idiosyncratic storyteller, has been compared to Kafka, Joyce, Borges, and Poe; his fictions are a striking blend of fact and fantasy, the disturbing and the playful. This collection of twenty-four stories is unpredictable, funny, bizarre, and, especially, imaginative: a writer innocently brushes his teeth and out spill dozens of mutinous words, demanding new meanings; a man pursues a perverse fantasy inspired by the sight of a woman's breast; a struggling poet discovers, to his horror, that he has been composing in a nonexistent language. Sharply observed details, startling whimsy, and a subtle seriousness inform these tales that test the boundaries of language and invite us to view existence in a different light.