English translation, curated by Enzo Martinelli, of Pirandello’s short story, “Uno di più- One More”, from his short story collection “Novelle per un anno – Short Stories for a Year”, with original text in Italian. Continue reading One More, by Luigi Pirandello ✒️📃🇮🇹
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 🇮🇹🖋️🇺🇸
English translation, curated by Enzo Martinelli, of Pirandello’s short story, “La camera in attesa – The Room is Waiting”, from his short story collection “Novelle per un anno – Short Stories for a Year”, with original text in Italian. Continue reading The Room is Waiting, by Luigi Pirandello ✒️📃🇮🇹
English translation, curated by by Enzo Martinelli, of Pirandello’s short story, “Tutt’e tre – All three”, from his short story collection “Novelle per un anno – Short Stories for a Year”. Continue reading All Three, by Luigi Pirandello ✒️📃🇮🇹
English translation by Enzo Martinelli of Pirandello’s short story, La maschera dimenticata – The Forgotten Mask, from his short story collection “Short Stories for a Year”. Continue reading The Forgotten Mask, by Luigi Pirandello ✒️📃🇮🇹
La presentación de trabajos de traducción de poesía y cuentos al español que apareció en este blog a lo largo de los años. Continue reading Literatura en traducción 📃➡️🇪🇸
Step into the captivating world of Luigi #Pirandello’s untamed imagination with this new translation of “Short Stories for a Year”, translated by Enzo Martinelli. Pirandello’s unfinished collection of #shortstories published by the newspaper Il Corriere della Sera over the period 1922-37 is a treasure trove of little literature gems. As you leaf through the pages of this collection, you’ll find yourself transported to a realm … Continue reading Echos of Existence, by Luigi Pirandello
Black Shawl Scialle nero – From the collection “Black Shawl” of 1922 – in Short Stories for a Year by Luigi Pirandello Translated into English by Enzo Martinelli ©️ 2023 – Enzo Martinelli After two months of horrendous anguish, that confession of her state relieved her, unexpectedly. It seemed to her that the most was now done. Now, having no more strength to fight, to … Continue reading Black Shawl, by Luigi Pirandello 2/5
“Scialle nero” – From the collection “Black Shawl” of 1922 – in Short Stories for a Year by Luigi Pirandello Translated into English by Enzo Martinelli ©️ 2023 – Enzo Martinelli Wait here,’ Bandi said to D’Andrea. – I’ll go and prevent her. If she still insists, you’ll have to come in. Myopic both of them, they were standing very close, facing each other. They … Continue reading Black Shawl, by Luigi Pirandello 1/5
Hitting the mark Nel segno – From the collection “Naked Life” of 1922 – in Short Stories for a Year by Luigi Pirandello Translated into English by Enzo Martinelli ©️ 2023 – Enzo Martinelli As she heard that the medical students would be returning to the hospital in the morning, Raffaella Òsimo begged the head nurse to usher her into the primary care room, where … Continue reading Hitting the Mark, by Luigi Pirandello
