Name and tears / Elio Vittorini --
Picturesque lives / Giovanni Verga --
The siren / Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa --
Against time / Antonio Tabucchi --
Generous wine / Italo Svevo --
The long voyage / Leonardo Sciascia --
Bago / Alberto Savinio --
The hen / Umberto Saba --
The lady / Lalla Romano --
The tower / Fabrizia Ramondino --
The trap / Luigi Pirandello --
Melancholy / Cesare Pavese --
Silence / Aldo Palazzeschi --
A pair of eyeglasses / Anna Mari Ortese --
The other side of the moon / Alberto Moravia --
The ambitious ones / Elsa Morante --
Sixteen, twenty-one, twenty-eight and thirty seven from Centuria / Giorgio Manganelli --
Quaestio de centauris / Primo Levi --
Gogol's wife / Tommaso Landolfi --
My husband / Natalia Ginzburg --
The mother / Carlo Emilio Gadda --
A Martian in Rome / Ennio Flaiano --
The smell of death / Beppe Fenoglio --
Life as a couple / Luce D'Eramo --
The milliner / Antonio Delfini --
The hind / Grazia Deledda --
Invitation to dinner / Alba de Céspedes --
Elegy for Signora Nodier / Silvio D'Arzo --
Malpasso / Fausta Cialente --
At the station / Carlo Cassola --
The golden nut / Christina Campo --
Dialogue with a tortoise / Italo Calvino --
And yet they are knocking at your door / Dino Buzzati --
The miraculous beach, or, Prize for modesty / Massimo Bontempelli --
A geographical error / Romano Bilenchi --
The streetwalker / Luciano Bianciardi --
The baboon / Giovanni Arpino --
Barefoot / Corrado Alvaro.
