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| Italian Short Stories: Racconti Italiano (New Penguin Parallel Text Series)
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Publisher: Penguin
Release Date: September 1999
ISBN-10: 0140265406
ISBN-13: 9780140265408
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| Customer Rating: | | When I opened the book at first I thought I had bitten off more than I could chew. I have been studying Italian for a few terms at evening class and regularly travel to Italy on business, but when I looked at the first story I couldn't understand a word. Then I flicked through the book and found a story that I could just about understand the first sentence of, and persevered with it. Gradually I have been able to understand every word and improve my vocabulary and grammar. The English translation is first class. It is not word for word - it translates Italian sayings and phrases into English equivalents. This will be a great help in improving my understanding of Italian, but it will require time and study. |
Useful, if lacking in taste...
| Customer Rating: | | This is a useful little book, well aimed at school-level students of written Italian. The stories are by well known names, some very famous (e.g. Primo Levi). As works of literature, they are not all particularly inspiring. However, if you have the stomach to read about the somewhat disgusting sex-lives of unclean peasants (as occurs in one story), then it is fine. A strong point is the notes about idiomatic usages, some of which are very useful, and indeed illuminating about life in modern Italy. I can confirm the accuracy of these notes. Recommendable, on the whole. Indeed, I hope that the author will continue, and give us further volumes. |
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