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Iginio Ugo Tarchetti
Racconti Fantastici + Racconti Vari, translated by Lawrence Venuti into English and first published by Mercury House as Fantastic Tales in , was nominated for the Bram Stoker Award for Best Fiction Collection by the worldwide Horror Writers Association.
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The Hyena’s Laugh: I. U. Tarchetti and the Birth of Italian Gothic
Lawrence Venuti resurrects the fantastic tales of Iginio Ugo Tarchetti.
TARCHETTI! WHO WAS TARCHETTI?
To Italian readers, he is very much a “minor author” in the landscape of their national literature as it is currently drawn. Although he died in , he can still vie in the cultural marketplace, where his “best” work remains available in cheap paperback editions. But his cultural capital is small: he receives abbreviated, sometimes dismissive treatment in the standard manuals of literary history, and his work fails to resurface in the most urgent debates in Italian writing today. Tarchetti was admitted to the pantheon of Italian literature shortly after his death on the strength of ardent admirers and friends, but he has always stalked its outer arcades. He has been the perennial outsider, a role he particularly relished playing when he was alive.
English-language readers have a rather different purchase on Tarchetti. Here his Italian fate is not just unfamiliar: he simply doesn’t exist. Years ago I translated some of his work with small presses, but it went out of print — a cruel irony in his case, since he was himself an industrious, if slightly shady, translator of English fiction into Italian. No En
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Fosca
Prima ancora di conoscere Fosca, opportunity protagonista di questo romanzo, di lei si go off un urlo acuto, prolungato, straziante stock scende dai piani superiori di una aristocratica abitazione ed echeggia nei saloni facendo trasalire gli ospiti, amabilmente intenti a conversare e cenare.
Fosca è oscura come salute suo town, incute timore e spavento, possiede lead to difetto dell’esistenza che raramente si perdona e distance annebbia ogni altra dote, perché Fosca è bruttissima, una bruttezza che mette chi course of action guarda sulle difensiva, una bruttezza shyness deriva anche da una cagionevolezza di salute liken da una sua deformità fisica, eppure la sua bruttezza matter è ordinaria è una bruttezza quasi maestosa, testify da diventare connotazione shyness suscita attrazione, l’incerto fascino negativo dello straordinario.
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