As a Man Grows Older
10 best books like As a Man Grows Older (Italo Svevo): The Late Mattia Pascal, The Tartar Steppe, Sostiene Pereira, Christ Stopped at Eboli: The Story of a Year, The Time of Indifference, The Moon and the Bonfire, One, No One and One Hundred Thousand, I Malavoglia, That Awful Mess on the Via Merulana, The Ragazzi
| Author | Luigi Pirandello |
| ISBN | 1590171152 |
Mattia Pascal endures a life of drudgery in a provincial town. Then, providentially, he discovers that he has been declared dead. Realizing he has a chance to start over, to do it right this time, he moves to a new city, adopts a new name, and a new course of life—only to find that this new existence is as...
| Author | Dino Buzzati |
| ISBN | 1567923046 |
Often likened to Kafka's The Castle, The Tartar Steppe is both a scathing critique of military life and a meditation on the human thirst for glory. It tells of young Giovanni Drogo, who is posted to a distant fort overlooking the vast Tartar steppe. Although not intending to stay, Giovanni suddenly finds...
| Author | Antonio Tabucchi |
| ISBN | 8433966324 |
Lisboa, 1938. En una Europa recorrida por el fantasma de los totalitarismos, Pereira, un periodista dedicado durante toda su vida a la sección de sucesos, recibe el encargo de dirigir la página cultural de un mediocre periódico. Pereira tiene un sentido un tanto fúnebre de la cultura y prefiere...
Christ Stopped at Eboli: The Story of a Year
| Author | Carlo Levi |
| ISBN | 0374530092 |
It was to Lucania, a desolate land in southern Italy, that Carlo Levi—a doctor, painter, philosopher, and man of letters—was confined as a political prisoner because of his opposition to Italy's Fascist government at the start of the Ethiopian war in 1935. While there, Levi reflected on the harsh...
| Author | Alberto Moravia |
| ISBN | 1586420054 |
In 1929, the fifth year of the Fascist era and the twenty-first year of Alberto Moravia's life, the Italian literary world was stunned by the appearance of his first novel, The Time of Indifference. It is a deceptively simple story – five characters, the events of a few days, the intrigues of families...
| Author | Cesare Pavese |
| ISBN | 0720611199 |
Anguila, the narrator, is a successful businessman lured home from California to the Piedmontese village where he was fostered by peasants. After 20 years, so much has changed. Slowly, with the power of memory, he is able to piece together the past, and relate it to what he finds left in the present. He...
One, No One and One Hundred Thousand
| Author | Luigi Pirandello |
| ISBN | 0941419746 |
The great Pirandello's (1867-1936) 1926 novel, previously published here in 1933 in another translation, synthesizes the themes and personalities that illuminate such dramas as Six Characters in Search of an Author.
Vitangelo Moscarda ``loses his reality'' when his wife cavalierly...
| Author | Giovanni Verga |
| ISBN | 8811582962 |
Nei Malavoglia (1881) Verga si immerge nella realtà locale di un paese siciliano, Aci Trezza, e racconta la semplice e rissosa quotidianità in cui vivono i Toscano, detti appunto i Malavoglia. Avvertendo come poco espressive le realtà borghesi, Verga cerca di rompere l'impianto romanzesco classico,...
| Author | Carlo Emilio Gadda |
| ISBN | 1590172221 |
In a large apartment house in the center of Rome, two crimes are committed within a matter of days: a burglary, in which a good deal of money and precious jewels are taken, and a murder, as a young woman whose husband is out of town is found with her throat cut. Called in to investigate, melancholy Detective...
| Author | Pier Paolo Pasolini |
An unsentimental depiction of the poverty and chaotic lives of those in the slums of 1950s postwar Rome, this novel follows Ricetto, an Italian youth, and his gang who survive by their wits, their cruelty, and their instincts for survival. Their lives are shaped by hunger, theft, betrayal, and prostitution,...
| Author | Gabriele D'Annunzio |
| ISBN | 1595690581 |
The Child of Pleasure (written in 1888 and published in 1889) and its protagonist Andrea Sperelli introduced the Italian culture of the late 1800s to Aestheticism and a taste for decadence. Sperelli is a young count, who - like Joris Karl Huysmans' Baron Des Esseintes or Oscar Wilde's Dorian Gray - following...
| Author | Yukio Mishima |
| ISBN | 0099282798 |
Yukio Mishima’s The Temple of Dawn is the third novel in his masterful tetralogy, The Sea of Fertility. Here, Shigekuni Honda continues his pursuit of the successive reincarnations of Kiyoaki Matsugae, his childhood friend.
Travelling in Thailand in the early 1940s, Shigekuni Honda,...
| Author | Alberto Moravia |
| ISBN | 1883642655 |
Secrecy and Silence are second nature to Marcello Clerici, the hero of The Conformist, a book which made Alberto Moravia one of the world's most read postwar writers. Clerici is a man with everything under control - a wife who loves him, colleagues who respect him, the hidden power that comes with his...
| Author | Leonardo Sciascia |
| ISBN | 8845907295 |
Una storia semplice è una storia complicatissima, un giallo siciliano, con sfondo di mafia e droga. Eppure mai – ed è un vero tour de force – l'autore si trova costretto a nominare sia l'una sia l'altra parola. Tutto comincia con una telefonata alla polizia, con un messaggio troncato, con un apparente...
| Author | Alessandro Manzoni |
| ISBN | 8804562609 |
I promessi sposi è un romanzo storico di Alessandro Manzoni. Assieme alle Confessioni di un italiano di Ippolito Nievo è considerato il più importante della letteratura italiana prima dell'unità nazionale. Fu pubblicato in una prima versione nel 1827; rivisto in seguito dallo stesso autore,...
| Author | Carlo Goldoni |
| ISBN | 8804236167 |
Messa per la prima volta in scena sul palcoscenico del Teatro Sant'Angelo a Venezia nel 1753, La locandiera piacque subito molto, anche se forse non riuscì ad affascinare del tutto il pubblico del tempo. Originale, spiazzante, giocata su una storia d'amore che non si sviluppa secondo gli schemi consueti,...
