Cancerqueen, and other stories.

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Cancerqueen, and other stories Hardcover – January 1, by Tommaso Landolfi (Author) out of 5 stars 1 rating. See all formats and editions Hide other formats and editions.

Price New from Used from Hardcover "Please retry" $ — $ Hardcover $/5(1). For instance, the Cancerqueen of the title story is a spaceship making a wild journey to the moon, in a novella that's parody, literary homage, and anti-fiction all at once. While the stories certainly have plots, what really matters is the style & the tone.

Landolfi is capable of a wide range, to say the least. Consider these lines from "The 5/5. Landolf’s Cancerqueen and Other Stories Finalist, National Cancerqueen Awards for Translation. Dial Press. Raymond Rosenthal. More about this author > Get This BOOK.

Amazon Cancerqueen is a unique dark witty book in the 20th century. A book about a spaceship making a wild journey to the moon with parody, humor, and anti fiction all at once.

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New York, N.Y.: Dial. A twenty-years' sampling of short stories by the prominent Italian whose work combines' and magnifies the less hospitable features of Borges, Kafka, and Nabokov.

Landolfi's tales take place in a circumscribed gothic solitude where desire and reason grind like thumbscrews and the narrators study cruelty, both suffered and inflicted, with an exquisite clinical singlemindedness.

[This book has no ISBN; Library of Congress Catalog Card Number ] Tommaso Landolfi is one of Italy's greatest writers, and this volume represents his finest work of the past ten years. Landolfi's universe is peopled by madmen, fantasists, talking animals, robots, anguished lovers—it is funny, sometimes horrifying, and always bewitching.4/5(15).

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Tommaso Landolfi (9 August – 8 July ) was an Italian author, translator and literary critic. His numerous grotesque tales and novels, sometimes on the border of speculative fiction, science fiction and realism, place him in a unique and unorthodox position among Italian writers.

He won a number of awards, including the prestigious Strega Prize. The Land of Stories fairy-tale characters—both heroes and villains—are no longer confined to their world.

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Find a copy. (Jacqueline Schuman’s cover for the English edition of Cancerqueen and Other Stories (), Tommaso Landolfi) For more book reviews consult the INDEX.

The Open Boat and Other Stories Contents: Minor conflicts: The open boat. A man and some others. The bride comes to Yellow Sky. The wise men. The five white mice.

Flanagan and his short filibustering adventure. Horses. Death and the child -- Midnight sketches: An experiment in misery.

The men in the storm. The duel that was not fought. Landolfi, Tommaso: Cancerqueen. And Other Stories. The girl lives in the murderer's description. She is lovely and as si lent now as she was then (she was in fact a mute). This selection of Thomas Mann’s letters, first published in a Vintage edition inspans sixty-six years from the first, written by a precocious fourteen-year-old, to the last, composed on his deathbed by the eighty-year-old Nobel Laureate, and includes letters to family and to such celebrated contemporaries as Gide, Freud, Brecht, Einstein, Hesse, Schoenberg, and Adorno.

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Landolfi, Tommaso: Cancerqueen. And Other Stories. The forms of his writing suggest that he is a man who should be read on more than one level—to use. Wife and Other Stories, as well as Landolfi's second collection to be pub-lished in English, Cancerqueen and Other Stories (Dial Press, ), met with very mixed reviews.

Some reviewers, such as Susan Sontag2 and Ronald De Feo,3 enthusiastically describe Landolfi as a writer of the first rank.

A Slav Soul, and Other Stories Note "Of this work all but three tales were translated by my wife, and these three by myself."--Introduction by Stephen Graham Contents: audio books.

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