Letter from Casablanca (Italian: Il gioco del rovescio) is a 1981 short story collection by the Italian writer Antonio Tabucchi.[1][2][3][4]
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| Author | Antonio Tabucchi |
|---|---|
| Original title | Il gioco del rovescio |
| Translator | Janice M. Thresher |
| Language | Italian |
| Publisher | Il Saggiatore |
Publication date | 1981 |
| Publication place | Italy |
Published in English | 1986 |
| Pages | 136 |
Contents
editThe first edition from Il Saggiatore contains the following stories.
- "Letter from Casablanca" ("Lettera da Casablanca")
- "Saturday Afternoons" ("I pomeriggi del sabato")
- "Heavenly Bliss" ("Paradiso celeste")
- "Dolores Ibarruri Sheds Bitter Tears" ("Dolores Iburrari versa lacrime amare")
- "The Little Gatsby" ("Il piccolo Gatsby")
- "Voices" ("Voci")
- "Theatre" ("Teatro")
- "The Backwards Game" ("Il gioco del rovescio")
The 1988 Italian edition from Feltrinelli Editore contains three additional stories. These stories are not in New Directions Publishing's English-language edition, published in 1986, but two—"The Cheshire Cat" and "Wanderlust"—were published in English in The Massachusetts Review in 2019.[5]
- "The Cheshire Cat" ("Il gatto dello Cheshire")
- "Wanderlust" ("Vagabondaggio")
- "A Day in Olympia" ("Una giornata a Olimpia")
References
edit- ^ "Letter from Casablanca". Kirkus Reviews. Retrieved 28 December 2023.
- ^ "Antonio Tabucchi: "Letter from Casablanca" (Book Review)". Studies in Short Fiction. 1987. Retrieved 28 December 2023.
- ^ "Sehschule". Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (in German). 24 June 2000. Retrieved 28 December 2023.
- ^ Koch, Stephen (24 August 1986). "Beautiful Refusers". The New York Times Book Review. Retrieved 28 December 2023.
- ^ "Two Stories". The Massachusetts Review. 2019. doi:10.1353/mar.2019.0036.