Full name: Words in Commotion and Other Stories

Author: Tommaso Landolfi Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Short Stories Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Amazon Goodreads ISBNs: 9780670805181 0670805181

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 wonderful 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.Titles within:- Introduction: Precision and Chance, by Italo Calvino- The Labrenas- Chicken Fate- Two Wakes- The Kiss- Gogol's Wife- The Werewolf- The Provincial Night- Maria Guiseppa- Uxoricide- The Test- The Ampulla- A Woman's Breast- The Eternal Province- Prefigurations: Prato- Literary Prize- The Grace of God- Prize in Spite Of- Rain- The Eclipse- The Gnat- An Abstract Concept- Personaphilologicaldramatic Conference with Implications- Dialogue of Greater Systems- Words in Commotion- Translators Afterword Similar books: Numbers in the Dark by Italo Calvino Bitter Honeymoon by Alberto Moravia Adam, One Afternoon by Italo Calvino Under the Jaguar Sun by Italo Calvino At the Gates of the Animal Kingdom by Amy Hempel Charity by Mark Richard Centuria by Giorgio Manganelli Brief Encounters with Che Guevara by Ben Fountain Where You'll Find Me by Ann Beattie Varieties of Disturbance by Lydia Davis Evening in Paradise by Lucia Berlin Difficult Loves by Italo Calvino The Oil Jar and Other Stories by Luigi Pirandello Gogol's Wife and Other Stories by Tommaso Landolfi The Watcher and Other Stories by Italo Calvino Sixty Stories by Donald Barthelme Brief Interviews with Hideous Men by David Foster Wallace Dirty Words by Todd Robinson An Actor's Life by Duncan Whitehead Selected Stories by Alice Munro