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Racconti Del Novecento: Realta regionali
Ilene T. Olken, University of Michigan
Claudio Mazzola, Vassar College

ISBN-10: 0137500017
ISBN-13: 9780137500017

Publisher: Prentice Hall
Copyright: 1991
Format: Paper; 320 pp
Published: 11/08/1990

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Chronologically arranged, this short story collection includes works by all major twentieth-century Italian writers.

  • uses regional identity as its unifying theme — and explores the relationships between regional customs and manner of speech, with the theme, vocabulary, and style present in each story.
  • selections reflect varying degrees of difficulty in vocabulary, linguistic structure, etc.
  • includes a review of important Italian grammar.
  • each story includes twenty content and theme-related questions; topics for composition or class discussion and projects; and grammatical exercises stressing correct syntactic, lexical, and idiomatic usage.
  • provides for each chapter — topics with accompanying exercises, an author biography, list of author's works, brief introduction to each story, and glosses of difficult vocubulary in Italian.

I. L'ULTIMO OTTOCENTO.

 1. Giovanni Verga, “La lupa,” in Vita dei campi, 1896 (Sicilia).

II. IL PRIMO NOVECENTO.

 2. Grazia Deledda, “Le tredici uova,” in Chiaroscuro, 1912 (Sardegna).

 3. Luigi Pirandello, “La giara,” in La giara, 1917 (Sicilia).

 4. Federigo Tozzi, “Una sbornia,” in Giovani, 1920 (Toscana).

 5. Corrado Alvaro, “La zingara,” in Gente in Aspromonte, 1930 (Calabria).

 6. Romano Bilenchi, “Un errore geographico,” in Mio cugino Andrea, 1938 (Toscana).

III. GLI ANNI '40 E IL PRIMO DOPOGUERRA.

 7. Vasco Pratolini, “Il Palio,” in Il tappeto verde, 1941 (Toscana).

 8. Francesco Jovine, “Martina sull'albero,” in L'impero in provincia, 1945 (Molise).

 9. Cesare Pavese, “Lavorare è Un piacere,” in Racconti, 1946; and “La Langa,” in Racconti, 1941 (Piemonte).

10. Vitaliano Brancati, “I padroni dell'isola,” in Sogno di un valzer, 1949; and “Poche e molte parole,” in Sogno di un valzer, 1938 (Sicilia).

11. Beppe Fenoglio, “Pioggia e la sposa,” in I ventitrè giorni della città di Alba, 1952 (Piemonte).

12. Carlo Levi, “Il Pontiac a Isnello,” in Le parole sono pietre, 1955; and “Impellitteri a Isnello,” in Le parole sono pietre, 1955 (Sicilia).

IV. IL SECONDO DOPOGUERRA E GLI ANNI '60-'90.

13. Domenico Rea, “L'albero di Natale,” in Il re e il lustrascarpe, 1961 (Campania).

14. Natalia Ginzburg, “Inverno in Abruzzo,” in Le piccole virtù, 1962 (Abruzzo).

15. Giuseppe Marotta, “Cecilia,” in Le Milanesi, 1962 (Campania).

16. Alba de Caspedes, “La paura,” in Nuovi racconti italiani, 1963 (Lazio).

17. Ercole Patti, “Piccolo propreietario terriero,” in Nuovi racconti italiani, 1963 (Sicilia).

18. Gianni Rodari, “La macchina ammazzaerrori,” in Il libro degli errori, 1964 (Lombardia).

19. Italo Calvino, “Marcovaldo al supermarket,” in Marcovaldo ovvero le stagioni in città, 1966 (Piemonte).

20. Piero Chiara, “Vieni fuori, eremita!” in L'uovo al cianuro e altri racconti, 1969 (Lombardia).

21. Alberto Moravia, “Un gioco,” in Il paradiso, 1970 (Lazio).

22. Leonardo Sciascia, “Il lungo viaggio,” in Il mare colore del vino, 1973 (Sicilia).

23. Lucio Mastronardi, “Dalla santa,” in L'Assicuratore, 1975 (Lombardia).

24. Gianni Celati, “Mio zio scopre L'esistenza delle lingue straniere,” in Narratori della pianura, 1985 (Liguria).

25. Vincenzo Consolo, “Comiso,” in Le pietre di Pantalica, 1988 (Sicilia).

Vocabolario.

Appendice: Letture Supplementari.

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