Tommaso Landolfi
Birth date: August 09, 1908
Died: July 08, 1979
Tommaso Landolfi's Books
Con Gogol le visioni sovvertono ogni ragione. Il reale diventa fantastico e il fantastico, reale. Da questo rovesciamento nasce una nuova realtà delle cose e degli uomini. E quello che poteva apparire grottesco, tale non è più. Ora, le tenebre son calate, se non vi spiace, me ne starei un po’ qua, s...
1. Gogol’s Wife Tommaso Landolfi’s story is written as a chapter of a biography on the famous Russian writer, Nikolai Gogol. In this chapter, the author explores the delicate matter of Gogol’s “wife.” It turns out that she is not a woman, but a balloon. A titilling conceit for horny teen-age boys o...
What an interesting selection.One of my coworkers is an early scifi geek, which is cool; he was telling me about this Hoffman guy. This thing has, like, Hawthorne in it. Just a neat way of looking at it.