La Signora degli scarafaggi e altri 22 racconti

Overview:

  • Title: La Signora degli scarafaggi e altri 22 racconti
  • Author: Thomas Dish
  • Year: 1984
  • Publisher: Mondadori
  • Price: Lit 3,500
  • Pages: 274
  • Binding: Trade Paperback
  • Type: Collection
  • Title Reference: La signora degli scarafaggi
  • Notes:
    "La Signora degli scarafaggi e altri 22 racconti" is an original italian collection, containing stories from Fun With Your New Head and Getting into Death and Other Stories. Single stories were translated as follows:
    • The Roaches translated by Antonangelo Pinna as "La Signora degli scarafaggi"
    • The Squirrel Cage translated by Antonangelo Pinna as "La gabbia dello scoiattolo"
    • Descending translated by Beata Della Frattina as "Scendendo"
    • Cephalotron translated by Beata Della Frattina as "Divertitevi con la Vostra Nuova Testa"
    • Nada translated by Mario Galli as "Nada"
    • The Number You Have Reached translated by Antonangelo Pinna as "Il numero a cui siete arrivati"
    • The Contest translated by Antonangelo Pinna as "La gara"
    • Linda and Daniel and Spike translated by Antonangelo Pinna as "Linda, Daniel e Spike"
    • 1-A translated by Antonangelo Pinna as "A"
    • The Beginning of April or the End of March translated by Mario Galli as "Principio d'aprile o fine di marzo"
    • The City of Penetrating Light translated by Antonangelo Pinna as "La città della luce penetrante"
    • Moondust, the Smell of Hay, Dialectical Materialism translated by Gianluigi Coretti as "Polvere di Luna, profumo di fieno e materialismo dialettico"
    • Casablanca translated by Gianluigi Coretti as "Casablanca"
    • Apollo translated by Antonangelo Pinna as "Apollo"
    • The Asian Shore translated by Antonangelo Pinna as "Riva d'Asia"
    • The Birds translated by Antonangelo Pinna as "Gli uccelli"
    • Death and the Single Girl translated by Antonangelo Pinna as "La morte e la ragazza sola"
    • Feathers from the Wings of an Angel translated by Antonangelo Pinna as "Piuma dalle ali di un angelo"
    • Let Us Quickly Hasten to the Gate of Ivory translated by Antonangelo Pinna as "Affrettiamoci alla porta d'avorio"
    • |X|-Yes translated by Antonangelo Pinna as "X-Yes"
    • The Empty Room translated by Antonangelo Pinna as "La stanza vuota"
    • The Brave Little Toaster translated by Simonetta Cioni Carr as "Il bravo piccolo tostapane. Una favola per elettrodomestici"
    • Downtown translated by Beata Della Frattina as "In città"
    • Die Verwandlung translated by Rodolfo Paoli as "La metamorfosi"
    Data from http://www.fantascienza.com, which correctly credits the stories to Disch, while 'Thomas Dish' on cover.
    Supplement to Classici Urania #87 (source mondourania.com and catalogovegetti.com)