Centuria: One Hundred Outoboric Novels

by Giorgio Manganelli

Book Overview

Italo Calvino once remarked that in Giorgio Manganelli, "Italian literature has a writer who resembles no one else, unmistakable in each of his phrases, an inventor who is irresistible and inexhaustible in his games with language and ideas." Nowhere is this more true than in this Decameron of fictions, each composed on a single folio sheet of typing paper. Yet, what are they? Miniature psychodramas, prose poems, tall tales, sudden illuminations, malevolent...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0929701852
• ISBN13: 9780929701851
• Release Date: November 2007
• Publisher: McPherson
• Length: 214 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.5"