Presents a selection of gothic tales, including The Legends of the Black Castle, A Spirit in a Raspberry, A Dead Man's Bone, The Elixir of Immortality, and The Fated.
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Presents a selection of gothic tales, including The Legends of the Black Castle, A Spirit in a Raspberry, A Dead Man's Bone, The Elixir of Immortality, and The Fated.
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Add this copy of Fantastic Tales to cart. $2.97, very good condition, Sold by ThriftBooks-Dallas rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Dallas, TX, UNITED STATES, published 1992 by Mercury House.
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Pearson, Jim. Fine in Fine jacket. Inscribed by Editor. This is the first English translation of the Fantastic Tales of the 19th century Italian writer I. U. Tarchetti, whose novel Fosca was the basis for Ettore Scola's 1981 film Passione d'amore; the stories in this book were the first Gothic tales published in the Italian language; includes an introduction by the translator Lawrece Venuti and illustrations by Jim Pearson; an appendix contains translations of two French Gothic tales and a memoir of Tarchetti by Salvatore Farina; inscribed, signed, and dated by Venuti on the half-title page (black cloth with gold lettering, gold edges, gray end papers, black ribbon marker; dust jacket has illustration by Pearson on the front; a bright, clean, tight copy)
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San Francisco. 1992. Mercury House. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 156279020x. Illustrated by Jim Pearson. Translated from the Italian by Lawrence Venuti. 200 pages. hardcover. Jacket design: Sharon Smith. Jacket illustration: Jim Pearson. keywords: Literature Translated Italy. FROM THE PUBLISHER-'Giulia's corpse. rests in her shroud as if wrapped in the veils of her virginal bed. Her beauty has lost none of its seductiveness. A white dress, light, almost diaphanous, covers her modest figure. Her pure white hands lie at her sides with the gentle surrender of sleep, and only her feet, pointing upward and joined together, bear witness to the horrible rigidity of death. ' This passage from 'Bouvard, ' a macabre evocation of obsessive love beyond the grave, typifies the eerie narratives in 'Fantastic Tales. ' The first Gothic tales published in the Italian language, Tarchetti's strange stories recall and sometimes imitate those of Edgar Allan Poe, E. T. A. Hoffmann, and Mary Shelley. In 'A Spirit in a Raspberry, ' a nobleman is possessed by the soul of a servant girl; 'The Letter U' recounts a man's mysterious phobia about that letter; the unexpected gift of everlasting life becomes a dreaded curse in 'The Elixir of Immortality. ' William Weaver, translator of Umberto Eco, writes: 'Lawrence Venuti now presents the nineteenth-century writer Iginio Ugo Tarchetti-a strange, romantic figure now almost forgotten even by Italian readers. But, as Venuti's probing introduction to this collection of tales indicates, Tarchetti is emblematic, the child of his times and their taste. The translations flow, yet retain the flavor of their period and are true to the style and personality of their curious, gifted author. ' inventory #16886.
