Letter from Casablanca

Letter from Casablanca

Author	Antonio Tabucchi
Original title	Il gioco del rovescio
Translator	Janice M. Thresher
Language	Italian
Publisher	Il Saggiatore  [ it ]
Publication date	1981
Publication place	Italy
Published in English	1986
Pages	136

Letter from Casablanca (Italian : Il gioco del rovescio) is a 1981 short story collection by the Italian writer Antonio Tabucchi. ^{[1] [2] [3] [4]}

Contents

The first edition from Il Saggiatore  [ it ] contains the following stories.

• "Letter from Casablanca" ("Lettera da Casablanca")
• "Saturday Afternoons" ("I pomeriggi del sabato")
• "Heavenly Bliss" ("Paradiso celeste")
• "Dolores Ibarruri Sheds Bitter Tears" ("Dolores Iburrari versa lacrime amare")
• "The Little Gatsby" ("Il piccolo Gatsby")
• "Voices" ("Voci")
• "Theatre" ("Teatro")
• "The Backwards Game" ("Il gioco del rovescio")

The 1988 Italian edition from Feltrinelli Editore contains three additional stories. These stories are not in New Directions Publishing's English-language edition, published in 1986, but two—"The Cheshire Cat" and "Wanderlust"—were published in English in The Massachusetts Review in 2019. ^[5]

• "The Cheshire Cat" ("Il gatto dello Cheshire")
• "Wanderlust" ("Vagabondaggio")
• "A Day in Olympia" ("Una giornata a Olimpia")

References

1. "Letter from Casablanca". Kirkus Reviews . Retrieved 28 December 2023.
2. "Antonio Tabucchi: "Letter from Casablanca" (Book Review)". Studies in Short Fiction. 1987. Retrieved 28 December 2023.
3. "Sehschule". Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (in German). 24 June 2000. Retrieved 28 December 2023.
4. Koch, Stephen (24 August 1986). "Beautiful Refusers" . The New York Times Book Review . Retrieved 28 December 2023.
5. "Two Stories". The Massachusetts Review . 2019. doi:10.1353/mar.2019.0036.

External links

• New Directions Publishing