Fiction Collections
Title | Original publication |
English translation |
Translator | ||||
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Ultimo viene il corvo The Crow Comes Last |
1949 | – | – | ||||
30 short stories: ? (some of these stories appear in Adam, One Afternoon, and other collections). | |||||||
– Adam, One Afternoon and Other Stories |
– | 1957 | Archibald Colquhoun, Peggy Wright | ||||
21 short stories: Adam, One Afternoon; The Enchanted Garden; Father to Son; A Goatherd at Luncheon; Leaving Again Shortly; The House of the Beehives; Fear on the Footpath; Hunger at Bévera; Going to Headquarters; The Crow Comes Last; One of the Three is Still Alive; Animal Wood; Theft in a Cake Shop; Dollars and the Demi-Mondaine; Sleeping Like Dogs; Desire in November; A Judgment; The Cat and the Policeman; Who Put the Mine in the Sea?; The Argentine Ant. | |||||||
I nostri antenati Our Ancestors |
1960 | 1962 | Archibald Colquhoun | ||||
3 novels: The Cloven Viscount; The Baron in the Trees; The Nonexistent Knight. | |||||||
– The Watcher and Other Stories |
– | 1971 | Archibald Colquhoun, William Weaver | ||||
3 short stories: The Watcher; The Argentine Ant; Smog. | |||||||
– Difficult Loves |
– | 1983 | William Weaver, D. S. Carne-Ross | ||||
3 novellas: Difficult Loves; Smog; A Plunge into Real Estate. | |||||||
– Difficult Loves |
– | 1984 | William Weaver, Archibald Colquhoun, Peggy Wright | ||||
The novella, Difficult Loves, and 20 short stories: Adam, One Afternoon; The Enchanted Garden; A Goatherd at Luncheon; The House of the Beehives; Big Fish, Little Fish; A Ship Loaded with Crabs; Man in the Wasteland; Lazy Sons; Fear on the Footpath; Hunger at Bévera; Going to Headquarters; The Crow Comes Last; One of the Three Is Still Alive; Animal Woods; Mine Field; Theft in a Pastry Shop; Dollars and the Demimondaine; Sleeping like Dogs; Desire in November; Transit Bed. | |||||||
Sotto il sole giaguaro Under the Jaguar Sun |
1986 | 1988 | William Weaver | ||||
3 short stories: Under the Jaguar Sun; A King Listens; The Name, The Nose. | |||||||
Prima che tu dica 'Pronto' Numbers in the Dark and Other Stories |
1993 | 1996 | Tim Parks | ||||
37 short stories: The Man Who Shouted Teresa; The Flash; Making Do; Dry River; Conscience; Solidarity; The Black Sheep; Good for Nothing; Like a Flight of Ducks; Love Far from Home; Wind in a City; The Lost Regiment; Enemy Eyes; A General in the Library; The Workshop Hen; Numbers in the Dark; The Queen's Necklace; Becalmed in the Antilles; The Tribe with Its Eyes on the Sky; Nocturnal Soliloquy of a Scottish Nobleman; A Beautiful March Day; World Memory; Beheading the Heads; The Burning of the Abominable House; The Petrol Pump; Neanderthal Man; Montezuma; Before You Say 'Hello'; Glaciation; The Call of the Water; The Mirror, the Target; The Other Eurydice; The Memoirs of Casanova; Henry Ford; The Last Channel; Implosion; Nothing and Not Much. | |||||||
– The Complete Cosmicomics |
– | 2009 | Martin McLaughlin, Tim Parks, William Weaver | ||||
The collections Cosmicomics and t zero, 4 stories from Numbers in the Dark and Other Stories, and 7 stories newly translated by Martin McLaughlin. |
Read more about this topic: Italo Calvino, Selected Bibliography
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