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All public and academic libraries should own at least one work by this great writer, and it would be wonderful if more of his works were translated. Separations is a complete triumph. -Library Journal The elegantly restrained passion of these two tales, penned in Bontempelli's delicate prose, proves yet again the writer's literary genuis. -Publishers Weekly Limpid, haunting tales, a bit reminiscent of Isak Dinesen and Julio Cortazar (though a better comparison might be to the stories of Bontempelli's Italian counterparts, Dino Buzzati and Anna Maria Ortese). Translator Gilson and publisher McPherson have performed a magnificent service here. -Kirkus Reviews The literary style of magical realism, usually associated with Latin American writers Jorge Luis Borges and Alejo Carpentier, actually has an Italian ancestry in Massimo Bontempelli, who first penned his realismo magico works in the 1920s. Like the writers who followed him, Bontempelli created rich, fantastic world that blended fable and precise description, dream and reality. In each story (in Separations), the themes of loss and yearning combine with a humorous irony, so that even background events of political upheaval seem distant and hazy. Bontempelli's richly imagined worlds, described as if he'd dreamed them just the night before, are beautifully haunting and fabulously written. -ForeWord Highly recommended reading, Separations will admirably serve to introduce a major Italian literary novelist to an appreciative American readership. -The Bookwatch, Midwest Book Review The coining of the term 'magic realism' is credited to the Italian author Massimo Bontempelli (1878-1960)-[who was] among the finest surrealist novelists of his time. Separations contains some humorous, satirical portions, but both novellas are painfully sad, full of emptiness and loss. Bontempelli can create a feeling that combines fear and melancholy very well. He's psychologically very insightful, and an elegant, economical stylist who gets to the point without wasting words or employing cliches. -Harvey Pekar, WKSU Public Arts A major player in Italian cultural life in the first half of the twentieth century, Bontempelli founded sophisticated avant-garde journals and composed a gamut of popular literary pieces including short stories, essays, plays, and novels. Regrettably, his work has been seldom translated. Two of the best exemplars of magic realism are the novels contained in this volume, novels Bontempelli himself linked in a 1940 Italian edition. In these tales of filial reincarnation and maternal idolization, the ludic joins with the ironic and the lyrical in a complex stylistic tone. Gilson's translation captures the deceptive simplicity of Bontempelli's style well and her brief preface is biographically informative. -Choice (American Library Assn.)

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