Landolfi, Tommaso 1908–

Landolfi is an Italian short story writer, essayist, dramatist, poet, and translator. An ingenious fantasist, Landolfi has been linked with writers such as Gogol, Kafka, Poe, Nabokov, and Borges. Because his writing contrasts so sharply with the neorealism of his contemporaries Moravia, Vittorini, and Pratolini, Landolfi stands apart from the mainstream of Italian literature.