How to vanish
Michael Dibdin, 23 April 1987
The Long Night of Francisco Sanctis
by Humberto Costantini, translated by Norman Thomas di Giovanni.
Fontana, 193 pp., £3.50, January 1987,0 00 654180 1 Show More
by Humberto Costantini, translated by Norman Thomas di Giovanni.
Fontana, 193 pp., £3.50, January 1987,
Requiem for a Woman’s Soul
by Omar Rivabella, translated by Paul Riviera.
Penguin, 116 pp., £2.95, February 1987,0 14 009773 2 Show More
by Omar Rivabella, translated by Paul Riviera.
Penguin, 116 pp., £2.95, February 1987,
Words in Commotion, and Other Stories
by Tommaso Landolfi, translated by Ring Jordan and Lydia Jordan.
Viking, 273 pp., £10.95, February 1987,0 670 80518 1 Show More
by Tommaso Landolfi, translated by Ring Jordan and Lydia Jordan.
Viking, 273 pp., £10.95, February 1987,
The Literature Machine
by Italo Calvino, translated by Patrick Creagh.
Secker, 341 pp., £16, April 1987,0 436 08276 4 Show More
by Italo Calvino, translated by Patrick Creagh.
Secker, 341 pp., £16, April 1987,
The St Veronica Gig Stories
by Jack Pulaski.
Zephyr, 170 pp., £10.95, December 1986,0 939010 09 7 Show More
by Jack Pulaski.
Zephyr, 170 pp., £10.95, December 1986,
“... case is there any sense of reading a translation. The same cannot be said of Words in Commotion. Tommaso Landolfi is renowned for his linguistic bravura – Calvino notes in his introduction that he ‘could do whatever he wanted with the pen’ – and Englishing his stories is as much of a challenge as making an Italian of Flann O’Brien. In such a ... ”
