The Stories and Recollections of Umberto Saba
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IntroductionThe Jews 1910-1912On an Early Manuscript by Saba3Dedication to My Aunt Regina7Preface9A Hebrew Scholar12Trieste's Ghetto in 186020Sofia and Leone Vita23Giuseppe28Doing Good35Seven Stories 1912-1913Valeriano Rode47A Man57The Lottery Numbers65The Hen73The Interpretation80War Dream87How I Was Banished from Montenegro93God 1937103Three Recollections of the Wondrous World 1946-1947The Immaculate Man107The Great Salvini and My Terrifying Uncle112Italo Svevo at the British Admiralty117Motherhood 1947121From Other Stories - Other Memories 1913-1957Portrait of Bolaffio127Five Anecdotes with One Moral132A Pistol Shot136Royalty138The Story of a Bookshop141Meatballs in Tomato Sauce144Portrait of Curzio Malaparte150From Three FragmentsA Conscript's Dream157Portrait of Adele159From Shortcuts and Very Short Stories 1934-1948Selections from the First Shortcuts165Selections from the Second Shortcuts172Selections from the Third Shortcuts177Selections from the Fourth Shortcuts and a Very Short Story185To the Reader195I Saw Him196Busy Little Kids198Madrigal for an English General200In Bologna201In Trieste202Black Man204The Turk206Carletto and Military Service208Celsa210"Hear Ye All the Troubles of My Heart"211An Old Man with a Beard213My Italy214Now That the War is Over215From ArticlesAdvice to Bibliophiles219
\ Publishers Weekly - Publisher's Weekly\ This volume, winner while still in manuscript form of the Italo Calvino and PEN Renato Poggioli translation awards, gathers together diverse writings by long-neglected Jewish-Italian author Saba (1883-1957), whose short novel Ernesto is his only prose previously published in English. Stories, essays, mini-memoirs, letters and ``shortcuts''--nuggets of literary observation--will introduce many readers to this Trieste poet who also ran an antiquarian bookshop, referred to in one essay as his ``gloomy cave.'' Two pieces address the subject of book collecting: one describes how Saba bought and sold stock for his store; the other advises bibliophiles on building their own private libraries. Additional subjects explored include marriage, loyalty, racism, war, nationalism, pet chickens, dreams and meatballs. In spare, realistic prose that makes even his fiction seem almost journalistic, Saba manages to convey great emotion and deep thought simultaneously. Although only a fraction of his 600 poems have been published in the U.S., this excellent prose collection should gain him some of the recognition already won by his friends and fellow Italian writers Carlo Levi and Eugenio Montale. (May)\ \
