Books by Massimo Bontempelli and Complete Book Reviews

The Chess Set in the Mirror
The Chess Set in the Mirror
Massimo Bontempelli, Author, Sto, Illustrator, Estelle Gilson, Translator , illus. by STO, trans. by Estelle Gilson. Paul Dry $9.95 (114p) ISBN 978-1-58988-031-3
This unique fantasy, written in 1922 and first translated from the Italian in this edition, takes readers to an imaginary world, perhaps earning this tale a spot on the bookshelf between Alice in Wonderland and Where the Wild Things Are . The...
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Separations: Two Novels of Mothers and Children
Separations: Two Novels of Mothers and Children,
Massimo Bontempelli, Author McPherson $28 (320p) ISBN 978-0-929701-61-5
Motherhood is the theme of these two intimate novellas by Italian writer Bontempelli, who preceded such better-known authors of ""magic realism"" as Jorge Luis Borges and Alejo Carpentier by more than two decades in his fusion of the miraculous and...
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The Faithful Lover
The Faithful Lover
Massimo Bontempelli, Author, Estelle Gilson, Translator, Luigi Fontanella, Introduction by Host Publications $30 (210p) ISBN 978-0-924047-35-0
Winner of Italy's 1957 Strega Prize, this collection of a dozen short stories and a novella from Bontempelli (1878-1960) originally appeared in Italian in 1953. The first seven short stories reveal a playful inventiveness and supple prose: ""Empress"
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