This collection of twenty-four stories by seventeen contemporary Italian women celebrates a high level of accomplishment that draws on a tradition of women's literature in Italy, but also marks a new and exciting vitality in Italian fiction. Writing of various experiences and from different regions, these women all create with an ease born of confidence in their art. They exhibit a control, an emotional detachment, that allows the deep irony of their invented world to play below the surface. They have a succinctness, a skill in limiting, that reveals more than layers of detail possibly could. These women share a talent for contriving psychological insights that surprise and touch the reader. Authors include Anna Banti, Grazia Deledda, Paola Drigo, Natalia Ginzburg, Geda Jacolutti, Gina Lagorio, Rosetta Loy, Dacia Maraini, Milena Milani, Marina Mizzau, Giuliana Morandini, Elsa Morante, Maria Occhipinti, Anna Maria Ortese, Fabrizia Ramondino, Francesca Sanvitale, and Monica Sarsini.
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Despite quixotic editing, this omnibus demonstrates the flexibility and sophistication of contemporary Italian fiction by women. Many writers here are not "new" (e.g., 1926 Nobelist Grazia Deledda, Elsa Morante, Natalia Ginzburg); half are represented by fiction that is "short" only because it is excerpted, often disadvantageously, from novels; and superfluous footnotes mar these pages. Nevertheless King, a translator (Vasco Pratolini's Family Chronicle ), includes riveting, previously untranslated works. Maria Occhipinti's autobiographical and impassioned "The Benedictines" describes a political prisoner's cruel confinement to a Sicilian jail managed by nuns and explicitly advocates reforms; Fabrizia Ramondino portrays a Neapolitan octogenarian matriarch in "Perfetta's Day"; Milena Milani offers three lightning-swift vignettes; "The Tree" showcases Anna Maria Ortese's brilliant prose style.
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Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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"A delicious antipasto." -- Ms., October 1990
"Demonstrates the flexibility and sophistication of contemporary Italian fiction by women -- includes riveting, previously untranslated works." -- Publishers Weekly, September 15, 1989
"celebrates female sensibility as well as power. Its characters, memorable for their grace as well as force, help modernize our definition of an Italian female style, speak to our growing interest in literary ethnicity and summon us to a feminism rich in humanism and storytelling wit." -- NY Times Book Review, Feb. 4, 1990
"deserves a place in women's collections." -- WLW Journal 14.1, Fall 1990
"points to a vital force among women writers in Italy today." -- Studies in Short Fiction 27.3, Summer 1990
"something of a watershed in publishing history--an essential contribution to the body of translated Italian fiction." -- VIA, Summer 1991
"Demonstrates the flexibility and sophistication of contemporary Italian fiction by women -- includes riveting, previously untranslated works." -- Publishers Weekly, September 15, 1989
"celebrates female sensibility as well as power. Its characters, memorable for their grace as well as force, help modernize our definition of an Italian female style, speak to our growing interest in literary ethnicity and summon us to a feminism rich in humanism and storytelling wit." -- NY Times Book Review, Feb. 4, 1990
"deserves a place in women's collections." -- WLW Journal 14.1, Fall 1990
"points to a vital force among women writers in Italy today." -- Studies in Short Fiction 27.3, Summer 1990
"something of a watershed in publishing history--an essential contribution to the body of translated Italian fiction." -- VIA, Summer 1991
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- Maria Zef (European Women Writers) by Paola Drigo in Front Matter (1), Front Matter (2), and Back Matter
- The City and the House by Natalia Ginzburg in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- The Little Virtues by Natalia Ginzburg in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Dream Book: An Anthology of Writing by Italian American Women (Writing American Women) by Helen Barolini in Back Matter
- Love in the Middle Ages by Helen Barolini in Back Matter
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- Italian Environmental Literature: An Anthology by Giovanni Pascoli on page 184, and page 249
- Italian Women Writers: A Bio-Bibliographical Sourcebook by Rinaldina Russell in Back Matter
- The Quality of Light: Modern Italian Short Stories by Ann Caesar in Back Matter
- The Cambridge Companion to the Italian Novel (Cambridge Companions to Literature) by Peter Bondanella on page 167
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