The complete short stories of Natalia Ginzburg
By: translated by Paul Lewis
Contributors: Lewis, Paul, 1981-
Series: Toronto Italian studies
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Toronto; Buffalo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 94
ISBN-13: 9780802099204
Subjects: Translations into English
Work titles: Short stories
Description: "Natalia Ginzburg (1916-1991) is today recognized as one of the foremost woman writers to emerge from twentieth-century Italy. The Complete Short Stories of Natalia Ginzburg brings together in English translation for the first time the eight short stories that Ginzburg wrote between 1933 and 1965.

These early works are significant in the context of Ginzburg's wider repertoire. The key themes and ideas occurring therein would come to characterize much of her later work, particularly in terms of her exploration of the difficulties implicit in developing and sustaining meaningful human relationships. Her short stories also provide intriguing insight into the development of her trademark literary style. Including an introduction by the translator and extensive contributions from Alan Bullock, Emeritus Professor of Italian at the University of Leeds, The Complete Short Stories of Natalia Ginzburg encourages a deeper understanding of Ginzburg's life's work and compliments those other collections and individual works which are already widely available in English."--Jacket.
Notes: Translated from the Italian.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: An absence (Un'assenza); title: Giulietta (Giulietta); title: The children (I bambini); title: The house by the sea (Casa al mare); title: My husband (Mio marito); title: German soldiers pass through Erra (Passagio di tedeschi a Erra); title: The mother (La madre); title: The marshal (Il Maresciallo).