A Music Behind the Wall: Selected Stories Volume One
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In her lifetime, Anna Maria Ortese received virtually every major Italian literary award, and, in a career spanning six decades, her last works became Italian bestsellers. Those who have read The Iguana know what extraordinary mysteries of human conscience and compassion Ortese's writings plumb. For several years we planned a fuller presentation of her work, selecting twenty stories from her many collections. These are published in two volumes, translated and introduced by the distinguished editor of our Italian series, Henry Martin. The first volume contains stories ranging in style and mode from realistic to the frankly visionary. Yet for all their variety, there is a steadfastness and coherency to Ortese's tales, and something original and almost entirely foreign to American writing. Can it be quite simply this: a conviction, verging upon certitude, of the validity, even necessity, of coincident or converging realities? To read one of Ortese's stories, which are almost impossible to
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0929701399
ISBN13:9780929701394
Release Date:May 1994
Publisher:McPherson
Length:160 Pages
Weight:0.75 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 5.5" x 8.6"
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