Malerba, Luigi
Malerba, Luigi (1927– ),contemporary Italian writer and screenwriter. His first book, La scoperta dell'alfabeto (The Discovery of the Alphabet, 1963), which anticipates the fantastic type of narrative that he later develops, is a collection of tales in which the old Ambanelli decides to learn how to read and write when he discovers that he can move around the letters of the alphabet. The novel Il serpente (The Serpent, 1966) deals with a stamp collector who realizes that, by using his imagination, he can become a king, an explorer, an emperor—anything he wishes.
Malerba's ‘Millemosche’ (‘A Thousand Flies’), a series of stories for children written in cooperation with Tonino Guerra in 1969, was published under the title Storie dell'anno Mille (Stories of the Year One Thousand, 7 vols., 1973). This work together with Mozziconi (1975) represents the author's attempt to try...
[The entire page is 500 words long]
Join eNotes
Over 3,500 study guides, question and answer forums, literature criticism, reference content, and much more!
Oxford University Press Titles
