A Very Normal Man
$25.38
- Paperback
128 pages
- Release Date
29 June 2015
Summary
A Very Normal Man: Revenge and Absurdity in the Everyday
A Very Normal Man is the first English translation of Vincenzo Cerami’s most famous novel, Un borghese piccolo piccolo. The Italian title speaks of a very little, very middle-class man. Giovanni Vivaldi, as Italo Calvino might say, is both victim and monster.
This is a tale of revenge, where the protagonist meticulously tortures his enemy with the same detached precision he applies to his lifelong off…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781743053713 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1743053711 |
| Author: | Vincenzo Cerami, Isobel Grave |
| Publisher: | Wakefield Press |
| Imprint: | Wakefield Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 128 |
| Release Date: | 29 June 2015 |
| Weight: | 144g |
| Dimensions: | 17mm x 261mm x 136mm |
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About The Author
Vincenzo Cerami
Vincenzo Cerami (1940-2013) is highly acclaimed as a novelist and nonfiction writer, and is also famous for his contribution to Italian cinema as the screenwriter of celebrated films such as the 1997 production La vita è bella (Life is Beautiful), which he co-authored with Roberto Benigni. Un borghese piccolo piccolo (A Very Normal Man), written in 1976, is Cerami’s first novel and it brought him instant acclaim.
Isobel Grave is Cassamarca lecturer in Italian language and literature at the University of South Australia. She is a NAATI qualified professional translator and interpreter and a published translator of poetry from Italian into English.
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