The Stories and Recollections of Umberto Saba (Sheep meadow fiction)
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| Rating | : | 4.48 (794 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 187881821X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 238 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-10-17 |
| Language | : | Italian |
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Jay Mey said Decent compilation. I bought this edition because I needed to read some of the material inside for a class. This edition doesn't exactly contain all of the Saba highlights, and I had to seek other texts to find some of the material I needed, but it's a decent compilation and had some of what I was looking for.
Here are the stories, memoirs and reflections of a poet who spent much of his life in his small antiquarian bookshop. This work largely overlooked but for friends such as Svevo, Montale, Pavese, Ungaretti and Carlo Levi, who found Saba's 'rich and complex prose of such scrupulous realism that it recalls Goethe or Thomas Mann, but is so much more brilliant, modern, and nervous.' "The Stories and Recollections of Umberto Saba" is a revelation: In its apparent simplicity, moral sense, its understanding, and, most of all, its quiet beauty, it is a true companion piece to the work of his fellow Triestan Italo Svevo, who one would have thought sui generis. Estelle Gilson's distinguished translation of the Italian prose stylist won the PEN Renato Poggioli Translation Award for 1992 and the Italo Calvino Award of the Translation Center at Columbia University in 1991.. With "Stories and Recollection", the short prose works of the great Italian poet Umberto Saba, 1883-1957, make their first appearance in English
Stories, essays, mini-memoirs, letters and "shortcuts"--nuggets of literary observation--will introduce many readers to this Trieste poet who also ran an antiquarian bookshop, referred to in one essay as his "gloomy cave." Two pieces address the subject of book collecting: one describes how Saba bought and sold stock for his store; the other advises bibliophiles on building their own private libraries. From Publishers Weekly This volume, winner while still in manuscript form of the Italo Calvino and PEN Renato Poggioli translation awards, gathers together diverse writings by long-neglected Jewish-Italian author Saba (1883-1957), whose short novel Ernesto is his only prose previously published in English. . Additional subjects explored include marriage, loyalty, racism, war, nationalism, pet chickens, dreams and meatballs. In spare, realistic prose that makes even his fiction seem almost journalistic, Saba manages to