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T Parks

Translations by T Parks

The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony [Buy Direct]

by Roberto Calasso
Translated by T Parks
Original title: Le nozze di Cadmo e Armonia

Roberto Calasso is the editorial director of the respected Milan publishing house Adelphi Edizioni and a well-known intellectual and literary figure both in Italy and abroad. He has been nicknamed ‘l’anti-Eco’ — the ‘anti-Umberto Eco’ — by the Italian press. (more...)

Sweet Days of Discipline [Buy Direct]

by Fleur Jaeggy
Translated by T Parks
Original title: Beati anni di castigo

This is the evocation of a self-absorbed childhood in an atmosphere bleached by memory and the passage of the years. The narrator awaits her release from a dull boarding school in which everything seems to have been programmed and pre-ordained. (more...)

The Voyeur [Buy Direct]

by Alberto Moravia
Translated by T Parks
Original title: L’uomo che guarda

This is the story of a ‘man who lives through his eyes’. On the one hand it’s a wry exploration of the mechanics of a certain dimension of the erotic, (more...)

Erotic Tales [Buy Direct]

by Alberto Moravia
Translated by T Parks
Original title: La cosa ed altri racconti

Written late in his career (late in his life in fact), Moravia’s Erotic Tales seem at first to be exercises in writing that use the erotic as a peg — the exercises of an experienced master-narrator, playfully executed and highly readable. Some of the stories, though, (more...)

The Road to San Giovanni [Buy Direct]

by Italo Calvino
Translated by T Parks
Original title: La strada di San Giovanni

One of several posthumously-published works of Calvino (who died in 1985), that were assembled from unfinished manuscripts, Road To San Giovanni collects various autobiographical pieces. There’s his account of his early love-affair with film, (more...)

Journey to Rome

by Alberto Moravia
Translated by T Parks
Original title: Il viaggio a Roma

Vanishing Point [Buy Direct]

by Antonio Tabucchi
Translated by T Parks
Original title: Filo d’orrizonte, Donna di Porto Pim, Volatili del Beato Angelico

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