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Love in Vain : Selected Stories by Minna Proctor and Federigo Tozzi (2001, Trade Paperback)
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From back cover: The twenty stories in Love in Vain were selected and translated by Minna Proctor, who received the 1998 PEN/Renato Poggioli Award for her then unpublished renderings of Federigo Tozzi's fiction.
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Product Identifiers
PublisherNew Directions Publishing Corporation
ISBN-100811214710
ISBN-139780811214711
eBay Product ID (ePID)1829130
Product Key Features
Book TitleLove In Vain : Selected Stories
Number of Pages160 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicShort Stories (Single Author), Anthologies (Multiple Authors), General
Publication Year2001
GenreFiction
AuthorMinna Proctor, Federigo Tozzi
FormatTrade Paperback
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Item Height0.5 in
Item Weight7.4 Oz
Item Length8.1 in
Item Width5.4 in
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Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN00-052719
ReviewsFederigo Tozzi, Italy's forgotten master of the short story, is a real discovery. I was delighted by the compassion and insight of Love in Vain, by its unflinching and subtle dissection of humankind's most private moments. How can such a powerful writer have slipped through the net and for so long? Now, thanks to Minna Proctor's elegant and equally subtle translations, it is unlikely that Tozzi will be forgotten again., Ardent, impetuous, crackling with nerve-energies, Federigo Tozzi insists on his uniqueness. Minna Proctor has brought this full-throttle sensibility into English without a flinch or a fidget., Federigo Tozzi's beautiful, strange love stories hover at the abyss, where reason meets unreason and loses. Tozzi must be the poet of abjection, a poet of the unconscious. His perplexing tales reflect on self-conscious characters caught in love's, and their own, absurdly needy net. They comment, too, on the moment when ideas were changing, sensibilities shifting, and his characters move, resistant and confused, from the Victorian into the modern. Translator Minna Proctor has done a wonderful job of realizing these startling stories in English and bringing them to us for the first time.
SynopsisLove in Vain: Selected Stories of Federigo Tozzi is the debut short-story collection in English of one of Italy's most distinguished early modern writers. The twenty stories of Love in Vain were selected and translated by Minna Proctor, who received the 1998 PEN/Renato Poggioli Award for her then unpublished renderings of Tozzi's fiction. "The investigation of naturalism, of truth," writes Proctor in her biographical introduction, "defined Tozzi's poetics. Impassioned by literature, yet isolated from the mainstream, Tozzi found nothing so fascinating as the unfettered expression of the inner lives of normal people." His work is at once a mixture of subtlety and melodrama, of psychological perception, primitive emotion, and raw physical need, as his plain subjects, yearning for connection and love, forever grasp at the unattainable.
LC Classification NumberPQ4843.O8A27 2001
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