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The Combover
Copyright © 2011 by Adrián N. Bravi
Copyright © nottetempo 2011
All rights reserved by and controlled through nottetempo srl
Translation copyright © 2013 by Richard Dixon
First published as Il riporto by nottetempo srl in 2011.
ISBN 978-0-9891267-4-8
Frisch & Co. Electronic Books Inc.
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Chapter 2 — Dante, The Divine Comedy, Pt. 1 Hell, Canto VII vv. 46-48, translation by Dorothy L. Sayers, Penguin (1949)
Chapter 6 — Spinoza Ethics, Part I, Definition VII and Part II, Axiom 1, translation by R.H.M. Elwes (1951)
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Table of Contents
Cover
Contents
1. My brother, the brute with the hair
2. My visit to Kociss the Barber
3. The great ruffle
5. Escape from home, leaving Cosino behind
6. A cave in the middle of the woods
7.Fear of wild man-eaters
8. A girl with blue-rimmed glasses and a boy with down over his lip
9. The bald mystic of the mountain
10. Enough, I don't do miracles!
11. A red roebuck with twigs on its head
12. The hunting knife
13. Under the umbrella with Costantino Toldini
About the author
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About the author
Adrián N. Bravi was born in San Fernando, Buenos Aires, and lives in Italy. He works as both a librarian and writer, and he has published a number of successful novels in both Spanish and Italian. He also contributes to various literary magazines and has co-hosted Fahrenheit, a popular Italian radio program.
About the translator
Richard Dixon lives and works in Italy. He has translated two books by Umberto Eco—The Prague Cemetery was published in 2010 and shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize in 2012; Inventing the Enemy was published in 2011. He collaborated on the first complete English translation of Giacomo Leopardi's Zibaldone di pensieri, published in July 2013. He has recently also translated Roberto Calasso’s book-length essay Ardor.
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