Letter from Casablanca

Letter from Casablanca
AuthorAntonio Tabucchi
Original titleIl gioco del rovescio
TranslatorJanice M. Thresher
LanguageItalian
PublisherIl Saggiatore [it]
Publication date
1981
Publication placeItaly
Published in English
1986
Pages136

Letter from Casablanca (Italian: Il gioco del rovescio) is a 1981 short story collection by the Italian writer Antonio Tabucchi.[1][2][3][4]

Contents

The first edition from Il Saggiatore [it] contains the following stories.

  • "Letter from Casablanca" ("Lettera da Casablanca")
  • "Saturday Afternoons" ("I pomeriggi del sabato")
  • "Heavenly Bliss" ("Paradiso celeste")
  • "Dolores Ibarruri Sheds Bitter Tears" ("Dolores Iburrari versa lacrime amare")
  • "The Little Gatsby" ("Il piccolo Gatsby")
  • "Voices" ("Voci")
  • "Theatre" ("Teatro")
  • "The Backwards Game" ("Il gioco del rovescio")

The 1988 Italian edition from Feltrinelli Editore contains three additional stories. These stories are not in New Directions Publishing's English-language edition, published in 1986, but two—"The Cheshire Cat" and "Wanderlust"—were published in English in The Massachusetts Review in 2019.[5]

  • "The Cheshire Cat" ("Il gatto dello Cheshire")
  • "Wanderlust" ("Vagabondaggio")
  • "A Day in Olympia" ("Una giornata a Olimpia")

References

  1. ^ "Letter from Casablanca". Kirkus Reviews. Retrieved 28 December 2023.
  2. ^ "Antonio Tabucchi: "Letter from Casablanca" (Book Review)". Studies in Short Fiction. 1987. Retrieved 28 December 2023.
  3. ^ "Sehschule". Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (in German). 24 June 2000. Retrieved 28 December 2023.
  4. ^ Koch, Stephen (24 August 1986). "Beautiful Refusers". The New York Times Book Review. Retrieved 28 December 2023.
  5. ^ "Two Stories". The Massachusetts Review. 2019. doi:10.1353/mar.2019.0036.