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Fantastic Tales

Iginio Ugo Tarchetti

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9781939810625
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9781939810625
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Published by:
Archipelago
Translated by:
Lawrence Venuti
Pub date:
09/29/2020
Binding type:
Paperback
Pages:
260
ISBN:
9781939810625
Lawrence Venuti, winner of a Guggenheim fellowship and the Global Humanities Translation Prize, among many other awards, has translated into English these Italian Gothic tales of obsessive love, mysterious phobias, and the hellish curse of everlasting life.

In this collection of nine eerie stories, Iginio Ugo Tarchetti switches effortlessly between the macabre and the breezily comical. Set in nineteenth-century Italy, his characters court spirits and blend in with the undead: passionate romances filled with jealousy and devotion are fueled by magic elixirs. Time becomes fluid as characters travel between centuries, chasing affairs that never quite prosper. First published by Mercury House in 1992.