Gogol's Wife: & Other Stories
Tommaso Landolfi
(Author)
Description
In 1964, with the stories of Gogol's Wife, New Directions introduced English language readers to the indelibly strange Italian master Tommaso Landolfi. Each tale is more astonishing than the next (what with a sacrilegious ape and an inflatable wife), though the stories are all delivered in a smooth and oddly decorous way. Casting its spell, this combination of the outré and the well-mannered unnerves the reader. The stories' duality is the stuff of nightmares, though the author's real nightmare, according to his champion Italo Calvino, is 'that nothingness does not exist.'Product Details
Price
$15.95
$14.83
Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation
Publish Date
January 17, 1963
Pages
187
Dimensions
5.22 X 0.54 X 7.98 inches | 0.44 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9780811200806
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About the Author
Tommaso Landolfi was a Italian writer and translator. His collection of stories, Gogol's wife, was cited as a "must read" by Donald Barthelme.
Reviews
What we know about Tommaso Landolfi would barely fill the pages of a hotel-lobby brochure. Briefly, he was (a) born in Pico, Italy, in 1908 and died in Rome in 1979; (b) addicted to gambling, and a fastidious dandy; (c) compulsively protective of his own obscurity. A lexicographic genius, beneath whose casually sadistic storytelling lies a lustful fascination with words and the dilemmas they encourage, Landolfi was a master of the insulting anticlimax, and usually managed to undermine the seriousness of his topics with an almost vaudevillian indifference. But, of course, he never liked readers anyway.--Michael Peck
