A thing is a thing
A thing is a thing (Italian: Una cosa è una cosa ) is a collection of 26 short stories by Alberto Moravia .
Content and narrative
Similar to Moravia's earlier short story volume Römische Erzählungen , the stories show some content and structural parallels: All are six to eight pages long, the plot is set in Rome and is reproduced by a male first-person narrator - in the first 25 stories a man, in the last a dog. They are more realistic everyday stories, some of which, however, take on a trait into the grotesque or dream-like-surreal, in that, as the recipient, the action is presented through the filter of a disturbed self and world perception of the first-person narrator.
Title of the story
- Command - I obey
- Celstina
- The average guy
- Gone in the yarn
- Contact
- The all-seer
- Geronzio
- Wake up
- Gilda
- The hunt
- Back
- The man with the beard
- The Chinese can
- Circumstantial evidence
- We don't want to dramatize it
- Who said that?
- The wall and the geranium
- A thing is a thing
- Machines that serve us
- Double life
- Conscience as needed
- Things that grow
- The monster
- reconciliation
- Venus inhabitants
- The smells and the bones
expenditure
The original edition was published in 1967 by Bompiani in Milan , the German translation by Katarina Helmling was published in 1969 by Kurt Desch . In 1971 a license was issued by the Aufbau Verlag . Further translations have appeared in English, French, Danish, Swedish, Polish, Czech and Vietnamese languages.
source
- Alberto Moravia: A thing is a thing . Stories. Aufbau-Verlag Berlin and Weimar 1971.