Start with his short stories: “The Labrenas”, “The Mute”, “Gogol’s Wife”. Italo Calvino’s introduction to the other collection, Words in Commotion and Other Stories, is also useful in getting to know this Italian recluse. I first read of Landolfi in Harold Bloom’s How to Read and Why. He also shows up on Don B.’s reading list. (Image: Tommaso Landolfi, Cancerqueen, trans. Raymond Rosenthal (1971); jacket design by Jacqueline Schuman)
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Start with his short stories: “The Labrenas”, “The Mute”, “Gogol’s Wife”. Italo Calvino’s introduction to the other collection, Words in Commotion and Other Stories, is also useful in getting to know this Italian recluse.

I first read of Landolfi in Harold Bloom’s How to Read and Why. He also shows up on Don B.’s reading list.

(Image: Tommaso Landolfi, Cancerqueen, trans. Raymond Rosenthal (1971); jacket design by Jacqueline Schuman)

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