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The Flying Creatures Of Fra Angelico
''The Flying Creatures of Fra Angelico'' () is a 1987 short story collection by the Italian writer Antonio Tabucchi. Contents The stories focus on creating images, often with surreal elements, and sometimes take form as fragments and sketches. * "The Flying Creatures of Fra Angelico" * "Past Composed: Three Letters" ** I. "Letter from Dom Sebastião de Avis, King of Portugal, to Francisco Goya, painter" ** II. "Letter from Mademoiselle Lenormand, fortune-teller, to Dolores Ibarruri, revolutionary" ** II. "Letter from Valypso, a nymph, to Odysseus, King of Ithaca" * "The Passion of Dom Pedro" * "Message from the Shadows" * "'The phrase that follows this is false: the phrase that precedes this is true'" * "The Battle of San Romano" * "Story of a Non-Existent Story" * "The Translation" * "Happy People" * "The Archives of Macao" * "Last Invitation" Publication Sellerio Editore published the book in Italian in 1987. The English translation by Tim Parks was first published in 1991 i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antonio Tabucchi
Antonio Tabucchi (; 24 September 1943 – 25 March 2012) was an Italian writer and academic who taught Portuguese language and literature at the University of Siena, Italy. Deeply in love with Portugal, he was an expert, critic and translator of the works of Fernando Pessoa from whom he drew the conceptions of '' saudade'', of ''fiction'' and of the '' heteronyms''. Tabucchi was first introduced to Pessoa's works in the 1960s when attending the Sorbonne. He was so charmed that when he returned to Italy, he took an introductory course in Portuguese for a better comprehension of the poet. His books and essays have been translated in 18 countries. Together with his wife, Maria José de Lancastre, he translated many works by Pessoa into Italian and has written a book of essays and a comedy about the writer. Tabucchi was awarded the French prize "Médicis étranger" for '' Indian Nocturne'' (''Notturno indiano'') and the premio Campiello, and the Aristeion Prize for '' Sostiene ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tim Parks
Timothy Harold Parks (born 19 December 1954) is a British novelist who has lived in Italy since 1981. He is also an author of nonfiction, a translator from Italian to English, and a professor of literature. Early life and academic career Parks was born in Manchester, the son of Harold Parks, an Anglican vicar and missionary, and his wife Joan.Crown, Sarah (27 July 2012)"A life in writing: Tim Parks" ''The Guardian''. Retrieved 26 June 2023. He grew up in Finchley, and was educated at Westminster City School and Downing College, Cambridge, where he read English. Following graduation in 1977 he spent a further period at Harvard University studying for a doctorate, which he did not complete. During his time in the United States, he wrote introductions for the dramatisations of novels on behalf of the Boston public radio station WGBH. Upon returning to Europe, Parks was employed initially as a marketing executive for a translation company before working as a freelance translator a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sellerio Editore
Sellerio Editore is an Italian publisher founded in 1969 in Palermo, by Elvira Giorgianni and her husband Enzo Sellerio, encouraged by the writer Leonardo Sciascia and the anthropologist Antonino Buttitta. History After some titles published in the first collection, of suggestive name ''La civiltà perfezionata'' (The improved civilization), the publisher gained visibility with the publication in 1978 of Leonardo Sciascia's ''L'affaire Moro'' (The case Aldo Moro). From then on the number of collections grows, starting with ''La memoria'' (The memory), today practically a symbol of the italian publisher. Among the writers who have collaborated with the publishing house: Gesualdo Bufalino, launched in 1981, winner of the Campiello Prize and Strega Prize and Andrea Camilleri ("father" of Montalbano). From 1983 onwards Elvira Sellerio started to dedicate herself only to narrative and essay publications while Enzo Sellerio started to take care of art and photography publicatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Literary Fragment
A literary fragment is a piece of text that may be part of a larger work, or that employs a 'fragmentary' form characterised by physical features such as short paragraphs or sentences separated by white space, and thematic features such as discontinuity, ambivalence, ambiguity, or lack of a traditional narrative structure. While it is difficult to classify literary fragments, a number of critics agree on a basic taxonomy of two types of fragment: those who intentionally use fragmentation as a form in their writing, and those that are fragmented because they are incomplete or because parts have been lost over time. As a form, the literary fragment has been employed during the Romantic, Modernist, Postmodern and Contemporary literary periods as a way to reckon with the challenges of modernity. Criticism and theory The literary fragment and the concept of fragmentariness presents several challenges to literary criticism, in part because of the difficulty in determining what const ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sketch Story
A sketch story, literary sketch or simply sketch, is a piece of writing that is generally shorter than a short story, and contains very little, if any, plot. The genre was invented after the 16th century in England, as a result of increasing public interest in realistic depictions of "exotic" locales. The term was most popularly used in the late nineteenth century. As a literary work, it is also often referred to simply as "the sketch".'' The Penguin Henry Lawson Short Stories'' (first published 1986); with an introduction by John Barnes, Camberwell, Victoria: Penguin Books Australia, pp. 1-16 Style A sketch is mainly descriptive, either of places (travel sketch) or of people ( character sketch). Writers of sketches like Washington Irving clearly used the artist as a model. A sketch story is a hybrid form. It may contain little or no plot, instead describing impressions of people or places, and is often informal in tone. In the nineteenth century, sketch stories were frequently p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Woman Of Porto Pim
''The Woman of Porto Pim'' () is a 1983 short story collection by the Italian writer Antonio Tabucchi. It revolves around the Azores archipelago, features whales and shipwrecks as metaphors, and uses fragments to express a fascination with Portuguese culture. Tim Parks' English translation was first published by Chatto & Windus in 1991 in a volume that also includes Tabucchi's short story collections ''Vanishing Point'' and ''The Flying Creatures of Fra Angelico''. It was published in its own volume by Archipelago Books in 2013. ''The Woman of Porto Pim'' was one of three finalists for the 1984 Grinzane Cavour Prize for Italian fiction. In 2013, Monica Seger wrote in ''World Literature Today ''World Literature Today'' (''WLT'') is an American magazine of international literature and culture, published at the University of Oklahoma. The magazine's stated goal is to publish international essays, poetry, fiction, interviews, and book ...'' that although the book is one of Tabu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alan Cheuse
Alan Stuart Cheuse (January 23, 1940 – July 31, 2015) was an American writer, editor, professor of literature, and radio commentator. A longtime NPR book commentator, he was also the author of five novels, five collections of short stories and novellas, a memoir and a collection of travel essays. In addition, Cheuse was a regular contributor to All Things Considered. His short fiction appeared in respected publications like ''The New Yorker'', '' Ploughshares'', ''The Antioch Review'', '' Prairie Schooner'', among other places. He taught in the Writing Program at George Mason University and the Community of Writers. Early life Cheuse was born in Perth Amboy, New Jersey. Cheuse grew up in a Jewish family, the son of a Russian immigrant father and a mother of Russian and Romanian descent. Cheuse graduated from Perth Amboy High School in 1957. Education Cheuse graduated from Rutgers University in 1961. After traveling abroad and working for several years at writing and editi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1987 Short Story Collections
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