Gogol's Wife: & Other Stories

By Tommaso Landolfi

Book Overview

In 1964, with the stories of Gogol's Wife, New Directions introduced English language readers to the indelibly strange Italian master Tommaso Landolfi. Each tale is more astonishing than the next (what with a sacrilegious ape and an inflatable wife), though the stories are all delivered in a smooth and oddly decorous way. Casting its spell, this combination of the outr? and the well-mannered unnerves the reader. The stories' duality is the stuff of nightmares, though the author's real nightmare, according to his champion Italo Calvino, is 'that nothingness does not exist.'

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811200809
• ISBN13: 9780811200806
• Release Date: January 1963
• Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
• Length: 187 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.2" x 8.0"