A tranquil star : unpublished stories
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Bibliographic Information
A tranquil star : unpublished stories
W.W. Norton, c2007
Available at 1 libraries
Contents of Works
- Early stories. The death of Marinese
- Bear meat
- Censorship in Bitinia
- Knall
- In the park
- Later stories. The magic paint
- Gladiators
- The fugitive
- One night
- Fra Diavolo on the Po
- The sorcerers
- Bureau of vital statistics
- The girl in the book
- Buffet dinner
- The TV fans from Delta Cep
- The molecule's defiance
- A tranquil star
Description and Table of Contents
Description
These seventeen stories, first published in Italian between 1949 and 1986, demonstrate Levi's extraordinary range, taking the reader from the primal resistance of a captured partisan fighter to a middle-aged chemist experimenting with a new paint that wards off evil, to the lustful thoughts of an older man obsessed with a mysterious woman in a seaside villa. In the title story, Levi demonstrates his unerringly tragic understanding of the fragility of the universe through the tale of a pensive astronomer, terrified by the possibility that a long-dormant star might explode and reduce the entire planet to vapor. This remarkable new collection affirms Italo Calvino's conviction that Levi was "one of the most important and gifted writers of our time."
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