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LOVE IN VAIN

內容簡介

內容簡介 Love in Vain: Selected Stories of Federigo Tozzi is the debut short-story collection in English of one of Italy's most distinguished early modern writers. The twenty stories of Love in Vain were selected and translated by Minna Proctor, who received the 1998 PEN Renato Poggioli Award for her then unpublished renderings of Tozzi's fiction. "The investigation of naturalism, of truth," writes Proctor in her biographical introduction, "defined Tozzi's poetics. Impassioned by literature, yet isolated from the mainstream, Tozzi found nothing so fascinating as the unfettered expression of the inner lives of normal people." His work is at once a mixture of subtlety and melodrama, of psychological perception, primitive emotion, and raw physical need, as his plain subjects, yearning for connection and love, forever grasp at the unattainable.

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各界推薦 "What good does love do me?" 關於愛情的定義是這本小說集中的主角們，都想要問的一句話。 Federigo Tozzi (1883-1920)一生中只完成了五本小說與超過一百篇的短篇小說的創作，但Federigo Tozzi在義大利的文學發展上佔有一定的重要地位。本書由獲得PEN award-winner的作家 Minna Proctor編選，選入二十篇Federigo Tozzi在1910到1919年間創作的短篇小說。這些小說中你可以發現這些作品隨著作者的歷練成長，從初期的故事僅簡單的蔓葉花樣，到後來不僅增加故事的複雜程度，也增加許多敘事技巧。 這些短篇小說中年輕的主角冀望一場理想的愛情，但是這些愛情招致的卻不是想要的結果，悲慘、嫉妒與背叛讓愛情充滿了戲劇，也構成了這些小說的精采細節

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