LEADER 03732nam 2200661 450 001 9910460171103321 005 20210915190636.0 010 $a1-4426-2802-2 024 7 $a10.3138/9781442628021 035 $a(CKB)3710000000324228 035 $a(EBL)3296720 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001403994 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12593578 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001403994 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11380134 035 $a(PQKB)10119362 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4670012 035 $a(DE-B1597)465552 035 $a(OCoLC)944178877 035 $a(OCoLC)999360609 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781442628021 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3296720 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4670012 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11256526 035 $a(OCoLC)958512262 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000324228 100 $a20160921h20052005 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 12$aA tournament of misfits $etall tales and short /$fAldo Palazzeschi ; translated by Nicolas J. Perella 210 1$aToronto, [Ontario] ;$aBuffalo, [New York] ;$aLondon, [England] :$cUniversity of Toronto Press,$d2005. 210 4$dİ2005 215 $a1 online resource (260 p.) 225 1 $aLorenzo Da Ponte Italian Library 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8020-3850-6 311 $a0-8020-4889-7 327 $tFrontmatter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$tIntroduction: Tall Tales and Short --$tA Solitary Gentleman --$tServite Domino in Laetitia --$tThe Black Mark --$tOur Friend Galletti --$tBistino and the Marquis --$tA Small Sentimental Gem --$tLittle Maria --$tThe Beautiful King --$tDagobert --$tThe Gift --$tA Small Gastronomic Gem --$tThe Portrait of the Queen --$tThe Hunchback --$tSummer Noontide --$tSilence 330 $aAldo Palazzeschi (1885-1974) is arguably the major twentieth-century Italian writer who has been most neglected by the English-speaking world. Born in Florence and trained as an actor, Palazzeschi ranks high as a poet and fiction writer in his homeland. His work, which attempts to recreate the experience of a spectator watching and listening to a character on stage, won him the praise of F.T. Marinetti, the founder of Italian futurism, who enrolled the young poet in his avant-garde coterie despite the fact that, stylistically, Palazzeschi's work had little in common with futurism.A Tournament of Misfits brings together a selection of Palazzeschi's short fiction for the first time in English. Through clear and fluid translations, Nicolas J. Perella demonstrates Palazzeschi's use of laughter to debunk social and literary myths. As a social being, Palazzeschi felt himself a deviant, but he was saved from a self-destructive bitterness by his capacity for irony, which he often directed at himself as well as at others. Yet, it would be a mistake not to see the desperate yearning for liberation from society's rigid code behind the irony and the fun in Palazzeschi's work. With this translation, Perella brings Palazzeschi to life for a new audience to appreciate. 410 0$aLorenzo da Ponte Italian library. 606 $aShort stories, Italian$vTranslations into English 606 $ahort stories, Italian 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aShort stories, Italian 615 0$ahort stories, Italian. 676 $a853.0108 700 $aPalazzeschi$b Aldo$f1885-1974,$0165101 702 $aPerella$b Nicolas J$g(Nicolas James),$f1927-2015, 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910460171103321 996 $aA tournament of misfits$92034816 997 $aUNINA