Lion or Foe, by Grazia Deledda 🇮🇹✒️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

English translation curated by Enzo Martinelli of Grazia Deledda’s short story, “Lion or Foe”, from her short story collection “Summer Sunshine”, along with original Italian text.

Traduzione inglese curata da Enzo Martinelli del racconto di Grazia Deledda, “Leone o faina”, dalla sua raccolta di racconti “Sole d’estate”, con testo originale a fronte. Continue reading Lion or Foe, by Grazia Deledda 🇮🇹✒️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Pirandello’s Short Stories 🇮🇹🖋️🇺🇸

Luigi Pirandello is celebrated worldwide as a Nobel laureate and theatrical innovator — yet the vast majority of his short story collection, the Novelle per un anno, has never appeared in English. This essay examines how that silence has distorted the anglophone reception of one of European modernism’s most radical writers, which stories have been translated and why, and what a complete critical edition would restore to English-language readers. A new ebook — pairing first English translations of selected stories with original critical essays — begins to address what has been missing for too long. Continue reading Pirandello’s Short Stories 🇮🇹🖋️🇺🇸