Parallel Text: Italian Short Stories 1

The eight stories in this collection, by Moravia, Pavese, Pratolini, and other modern writers, have been selected as being representative of contemporary Italian writing. The English translations provided are literal rather than literary and there are notes and biographies of the writers to help the student of Italian. However, the volume can also be helpful to Italians, who can improve their English by studying a strict rendering of stories with which they may already be familiar.

Contents

• Introduction
• The Removal / Vasco Pratolini (1913–91) translated by Pamela Swinglehurst
• Houses / Cesare Pavese (1908–50) translated by Alexander Fainberg
• The Poor / Carlo Cassola (1917–87) translated by Anthony Rhodes
• Big Fish, Little Fish / Italo Calvino (1923–87) translated by Archibald Colquhoun
• The Ash of Battles Past / Carlo Emilio Gadda (1893–1973) translated by I.M. Rawson
• The Mother / Natalia Ginzburg (1916–69) translated by Isabel Quigly
• Anguish / Alberto Moravia (1907–90) translated by Angus Davidson
• Footsteps in the Snow / Mario Soldati (1906– ) translated by Gwyn Morris
• Notes on Italian Texts

First book in the Italian Penguin Parallel Text series