Gualdo, Luigi

Narcisa and Other Stories

Snuggly Books:
Sacramento: 2024
Trade paperback, New,
131 pp.


Three tales appearing here for the first time in English. “Among the numerous Italian writers who were active in the second half of the nineteenth century, Luigi Gualdo (1844-1898), the somewhat obscure and forgotten author of the stories in the present volume, is surely one of the most deserving of rehabilitation. His work, highly refined, eccentric, and full of both sentiment and pessimism, though often categorized with the Italian Scapigliatura school, also shares many of the tendencies of the French Decadent movement, with which Gualdo was well familiar.” #73665

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