BASSANI, GIORGIO - LE STORIE FERRARESI

Torino, Giulio Einaudi, 1960, Decima edizione. 1960. Hardcover with dust jacket. Hardback, octavo, 329 pages, Good+ in Good+ dj (dj in mylar). DJ generally clean with a few edge splits at the folds. DJ colorful front panel reproduction of "Paesaggio" (1941), by Giorgio Morandi. Professor's signature in ink beneath front flap of dj with her pencil underlining & notations in the margin. Book has a sound binding and is otherwise clean. Text in the Italian language. Written by the author of The Garden of the Finzi-Conitni (made into a movie by the same name). Eight stories: Il muro di cinta, Lida Mantovani, La passegiata prima di cena, Una lapide in via Mazzini, Gli ultimi anni di Clelia Trotti, Una notte del '43, Gli occhiali d'oro & In esilio. Back panel dj blurbs include John Davenport, "The Observer," "Bassani ha creato un microcosmo della crudelta contemporanea con un riserbo magistrale, ammirevole" & Anne Duchene, "The Guardian," "Mai Bassani cerca di persuadere, lusingare, sorprendere o abbagliare il lettore per farsene un complice. Racconta con antica semplicita, e mirabilmente." , Good/Dust Jacket Included.

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