Collected Poems2 reviews Primo Levi Faber and Faber, 1988 Depressing but compelling + Depressing but compelling The book comprises the former editions 'Shema' and 'At an Uncertain Hour' as well as eighteen previously uncollected poems. The poems combine a sometimes distanced stance with a very intimate and poignant emotion. Levi manages to capture a sense of the futility of life in the face of evil; the ...             The Leopard (revised) (Vintage Classics)61 reviews Giuseppe Di Lampedusa Vintage Classics, 2007 The Leopard + An Italian historical Romance? + A great novel + The Lelopard             Confessions of Zeno14 reviews Italo Svevo Vintage, 1989 Beautiful Life Style + Why is this a Great Novel? + Literary masterpiece, with a final twist. I just quit from an engineering consultant coporation last Friday, then probably to be a business owner with my friend later. When I walked around in the biggest bookstore "ESLITE" in Taipei last Sunday, the book " La Conscienza di Zeno" catch my eyes. Then, I decided to buy it without opening it ...             Family Sayings1 review Natalia Ginzburg Arcade Publishing, 1989 A family history in hearing This is a very rich story of the family of Natalia Ginzburg. It is written in an unusual way. And much of the text consists in her citations of what other family members have said. It tells the story of her family in Turin, and goes up through her adult life. It is also unusual in that she does not ...             The Selected Poems of Miguel Hernandez: A Bilingual Edition Miguel Hernandez University Of Chicago Press, 2001 In the Spanish-speaking world, Miguel Hernández is regarded as one of the most important poets of the twentieth century-equal in distinction to Federico García Lorca, Pablo Neruda, and Octavio Paz. He has never received his just acclaim, however, in the English-speaking world, a victim of the artistic oppression exercised during the period of Francisco Franco's totalitarian regime. Determined to ...             t zero (A Harvest/HBJ BookH)5 reviews Italo Calvino Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1976 One of the finest works of post-modernist fiction. + outrageously funny, and deep enough to wash your hair + Brilliantly imaginative, if somewhat tedious. + I liked it but.........             Three Exemplary Novels3 reviews Miguel de Unamuno Grove Press, 1994 Egad! + Unamuno's philosophy in novel form In the prologue to this trio of novellas, Unamuno declares that the work might be more aptly dubbed "four exemplary novels." "For this prologue is also a novel... the novel of my novels," he adds. And, indeed, I believe him. The prologue itself is wildly entertaining and, by far, the most ...             Cuttlefish Bones (1920-1927)1 review Eugenio Montale W. W. Norton & Company, 1994 Astonishing poetry Montale is the great Italian poet of this century, and this is his best book. English Horn is of a stunning beauty. It ends, in Italian, with the verse "Scordato strumento, cuore!". The translation is beautiful: the poetry is, definitely, not lost!             If on a Winter's Night a Traveller5 reviews Italo Calvino Vintage, 2007 If on a winter's night a traveler... or not? + Not fully, but very satisfied. + be prepared for a journey + Damn you Calvino...             Selected Poems: A Bilingual Edition2 reviews Giuseppe Ungaretti Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004 Equally rewarding translations. + Very good work ... but one with a few caveats While I would like to thank the previous reviewer for alerting me to the different translations of Ungaretti, I must respectfully disagree with his comparison of the Frisardi and Mandelbaum versions. Before deciding which to buy, I checked both out of library and read several poems side by side. ...             Pier Paolo Pasolini Poems1 review Pier Paolo Pasolini Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1996 From the translator (April 14, 2008) Praise for PIER PAOLO PASOLINI: POEMS translated by Norman MacAfee with Luciano Martinengo Winner of the first Renato Poggioli/William Weaver Award of the PEN American Center "Forceful, readable translations of brilliant, scorching poems."--Patriot Ledger "Translating ...             Gogol's Wife and Other Stories2 reviews Tommaso Landolfi New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1963 Wonderfully Funny! + An advise from Italy: read Landolfi! Landolfi has been called "the Italian Kafka" (according to the blurb on the back of the book), no doubt because of the surrealistic elements in his short stories. For example, Landolfi imagines Gogol's wife as an inflatible creature to be manipulated according to Gogol's will. In "Dialogue of ...             Equal Danger (New York Review Books Classics)4 reviews Leonardo Sciascia NYRB Classics, 2003 Metaphysical Detective Novel + "A conspiracy is everything that ordinary life is not + Suspense, Mystery, and Corruption! At its heart the English/American detective novel is a story about procedure. A crime takes place and the hero methodically advances step by step to unravel the mystery. The pleasure in these stories is observing the hero's clever reasoning as he solves the puzzle. The procedural detective story ...             Orphic Songs Charles Wright Oberlin College Press, 1984 Dino Campana's small and intensely magical body of poetry from the early years of the twentieth century--prose and free verse that combine the visual and the visionary with astonishing vigor and haunting grace--is little known to English-speaking readers. Now, thanks to the efforts of Pulitzer-winning poet Charles Wright, we have the best of Campana, superbly translated, and enhanced by Jonathan ...             Our Lord Don Quixote: The Life of Don Quixote and Sancho, With Related Essays (Bollingen series)2 reviews Miguel De Unamuno Princeton Univ Pr, 1976 A disguised biography of Loyola! + La quijotesca vida de Ignacio de Loyola segun Unamuno Very interesting! This is a disguised biography of St. Ignatius de Loyola! Don Miguel sees him as a quixotic hero of Spain             The Selected Poetry and Prose of Andrea Zanzotto: A Bilingual Edition Andrea Zanzotto University Of Chicago Press, 2007 By Now (Ormai) By now the primrose and the warmth at your feet and the green insight of the world The uncovered carpets the loggias shaken by wind and sun tranquil worm of the thorny woods; my distant pain, distinct thirst like another life in the breast Here all that's left is to wrap the landscape around the self and turn your back. Andrea Zanzotto is widely considered ...             The Periodic Table40 reviews Primo Levi Schocken, 1995 Poetry and Prose in one volume + sometimes inaccessible, but sometimes lovely + The Periodic Table. + good chemistry! + Daringly creative             Kisses from Another Dream (City Lights Pocket Poets Series) Antonio Porta City Lights Publishers, 1987 poetry, tr Anthony Molino             The Day of the Owl (New York Review Books Classics)7 reviews Leonardo Sciascia NYRB Classics, 2003 And the Witness Asked, "Has there been a shooting?" + Small writing jewel + Darkness at Noon The New York Review Books Classics series brings another excellent writer and storyteller to the attention of a wider audience with the publication of 'The Day of the Owl' by Leonardo Sciascia. 'The Day of the Owl' opens with the murder of an honest Sicilian contractor - on a public street in front ...             Invisible Reality (1917-1920, 1924) Juan Ramon Jimenez iUniverse, 2000 The great Spanish poet Juan Ramón Jiménez, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1956, was a mystic as will as a poet, and the deep spirituality which infuses so much of his writing makes itself felt with special fervor throughout this remarkable new collection of poems. Composed by Jiménez between the years 1917 to 1920, the works in this grouping vanished mysteriously, only to be ...