A tranquil star

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  • Auteur: Levi, Primo
    Contributor:

    Bastagli, Alessandra

    ,

    Goldstein, Ann

    Résumé:

    These seventeen stories, first published in Italian between 1949 and 1986, demonstrate Levi's extraordinary range, taking the reader from the primal resistance of a captured partisan fighter to a middle-aged chemist experimenting with a new paint that wards off evil, to the lustful thoughts of an older man obsessed with a mysterious woman in a seaside villa.

    Contents:
    • The death of Marinese
    • Bear meat
    • Censorship in Bitinia
    • Knall
    • In the park
    • The magic paint
    • Gladiators
    • The fugitive
    • One night
    • Fra Diavolo on the Po
    • The sorcerers
    • Bureau of vital statistics
    • The girl in the book
    • Buffet dinner
    • The TV fans from Delta Cep
    • The molecule's defiance
    • A tranquil star.
    Genre: Short stories
    Original Publisher: [Ashland, Oregon] , Blackstone Publishing
    Language(s): English
    ISBN:

    9780792748847

    ,

    0792748840

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DC Contributor

Bastagli, Alessandra

Goldstein, Ann

Abstract

These seventeen stories, first published in Italian between 1949 and 1986, demonstrate Levi's extraordinary range, taking the reader from the primal resistance of a captured partisan fighter to a middle-aged chemist experimenting with a new paint that wards off evil, to the lustful thoughts of an older man obsessed with a mysterious woman in a seaside villa.

Genre
Short stories
Publisher (Source)

[Ashland, Oregon]

Blackstone Publishing

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