Gianni Celati, Author, Stuart Hood, Translator Serpent's Tail $14.99 (160p) ISBN 978-1-85242-212-7
These four lively novellas by Italian writer Celati (Voices from the Plains) are distinct yet share a common theme: the truth and falseness that are both inherent in our words and thoughts. In the first piece, a man suddenly stops speaking--a...
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Gianni Celati, Author, Adria Bernardi, Translator, Rebecca West, Foreword by University of Chicago Press $22 (170p) ISBN 978-0-226-09955-2
In 1997, famed Italian author and essayist Celati accompanied his friend, filmmaker Jean Talon, on a journey to West Africa that took them from Mali to Senegal and Mauritania. The original purpose of their journey, to do research for a documentary...
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Gianni Celati, Author, Robert Lumley, Translator Serpent's Tail $15.99 (144p) ISBN 978-1-85242-143-4
In what amounts to a cantata, the narrators evaporate, leaving behind brief tales that establish the tellers' existences by recording their inability to overcome alienation and despair. Celati, an Italian, adopts a deceptively simple style in both...
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