Un racconto vero-verissimo

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Short Stories: l’arte del racconto e le sue lingue

Giovanni Verga: The She-Wolf, la Lupa

GIOVANNI VERGA – She was tall and lean; but she had a firm, full bust, and yet she was no longer young; her complexion was brunette, but pallid as if she had always suffered from […]

Anton Chekhov: At Christmas Time

ANTON CHEKHOV – “What shall I write ? ” asked Yegor, dipping his pen in the ink. Vasilissa had not seen her daughter for four years. Efimia had gone away to St. Petersburg with her […]

Anton Chekhov: The Slanderer

ANTON CHEKHOV – Sergey Kapitonlch Akhineyev, the teacher of calligraphy, gave his daughter Natalya in marriage to the teacher of history and geography, Ivan Petrovich Loshadinikh. The wedding feast went on swimmingly. They sang, played, and […]

Giovanni Verga / Lawrence: Liberty

GIOVANNI VERGA / (Lawrence) – They unfurled a red-white-and-green handkerchief from the church-tower, they rang the bells in a frenzy, and they began to shout in the village square, “Hurray for liberty!” Like the sea in […]

César Vallejo: El vencedor (cuento)

CÉSAR VALLEJO – Un incidente de manos en el recreo llevó a dos niños a romperse los dientes a la salida de la escuela. A la puerta del plantel se hizo un tumulto. Gran número […]