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The Stories and Recollections of Umberto Saba »

Authors: Umberto Saba, Estelle Gilson
ISBN-13: 9781878818638, ISBN-10: 1878818635
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Sheep Meadow Press, The
Date Published: December 1993
Edition: (Non-applicable)

	Introduction
	The Jews 1910-1912
	On an Early Manuscript by Saba	3
	Dedication to My Aunt Regina	7
	Preface	9
	A Hebrew Scholar	12
	Trieste's Ghetto in 1860	20
	Sofia and Leone Vita	23
	Giuseppe	28
	Doing Good	35
	Seven Stories 1912-1913
	Valeriano Rode	47
	A Man	57
	The Lottery Numbers	65
	The Hen	73
	The Interpretation	80
	War Dream	87
	How I Was Banished from Montenegro	93
	God 1937	103
	Three Recollections of the Wondrous World 1946-1947
	The Immaculate Man	107
	The Great Salvini and My Terrifying Uncle	112
	Italo Svevo at the British Admiralty	117
	Motherhood 1947	121
	From Other Stories - Other Memories 1913-1957
	Portrait of Bolaffio	127
	Five Anecdotes with One Moral	132
	A Pistol Shot	136
	Royalty	138
	The Story of a Bookshop	141
	Meatballs in Tomato Sauce	144
	Portrait of Curzio Malaparte	150
	From Three Fragments
	A Conscript's Dream	157
	Portrait of Adele	159
	From Shortcuts and Very Short Stories 1934-1948
	Selections from the First Shortcuts	165
	Selections from the Second Shortcuts	172
	Selections from the Third Shortcuts	177
	Selections from the Fourth Shortcuts and a Very Short Story	185
	To the Reader	195
	I Saw Him	196
	Busy Little Kids	198
	Madrigal for an English General	200
	In Bologna	201
	In Trieste	202
	Black Man	204
	The Turk	206
	Carletto and Military Service	208
	Celsa	210
	"Hear Ye All the Troubles of My Heart"	211
	An Old Man with a Beard	213
	My Italy	214
	Now That the War is Over	215
	From Articles
	Advice to Bibliophiles	219