Romano, Lalla
Romano, Lalla (1906– ),Italian poet, painter, translator, and critic. She is best known for her autobiographical narrative Le parole tra noi leggere (The Words between Us Weightless, 1969, Strega Prize), which resembles in its conclusion the morals of fairy tales. Romano's flirting with fairy tales is most evident in Le Metamorfosi (1951, rev. 1983), a collection of short prose narratives based on dreams. Some of them are truly fairy tales, since the author believes that dream‐transformations are of the same material one finds in myths and fairy tales. Other works with a fairy‐tale atmosphere include L'ospite (The Guest, 1973) and Ho sognato l'ospedale (I Dreamed the Hospital, 1995).
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