{"product_id":"butterfly-of-dinard-9781681378169","title":"Butterfly of Dinard","description":"The great poet Eugenio Montale was also a remarkable writer of prose whose stories appeared regularly in the Italian newspaper \u003ci\u003eCorriere della Sera\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003ci\u003eButterfly of Dinard\u003c\/i\u003e is a collection of fifty of those stories, pieces about \"silly and trivial things which are at the same time important,\" whose sprightliness, subtle irony, and conversational ease defy the limits of traditional fiction. Taken together, they form a sort of autobiographical novel, evoking people, objects, and animals dear to the poet, while simultaneously shedding light on the social, cultural, and political events of the day. The book begins with Montale's childhood in Liguria and goes on to explore his adult life in pre-Fascist Florence and the onset of Fascism. The last part of the book, focusing on his final years in Milan, forms what Jonathan Galassi in his introduction calls \"a mosaic self-portrait of the writer himself, a bumbling yet proud, memory-obsessed Chaplinesque antihero, who sees himself as the only surviving, if unwilling, witness to a disappearing world.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe stories were first published in book form in 1956; Montale added further stories to subsequent editions, culminating in the final 1973 edition.\u003ci\u003e Butterfly of Dinard\u003c\/i\u003e is the first complete translation of this edition and includes five stories never before translated into English.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New York Review of Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/14\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781681378169\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 232\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.81lbs","brand":"Eugenio Montale","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43766740615349,"sku":"9781681378169","price":14.41,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_6b6e2ae5-3ac6-49af-ac2c-b099acb1e42c.jpg?v=1710817897","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/butterfly-of-dinard-9781681378169","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}