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3.8/5 Flipkart Language Italian Originally published June 1970 | 3.9/5 Goodreads Country Italy Media type Print | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Difficult Loves (Italian: Gli amori difficili) is a 1970 short story collection by Italo Calvino. It concerns love and the difficulty of communication.
Contents
Some published versions of the English translation by William Weaver omit a number of the stories, and also include other Calvino stories about the Second World War and postwar period, including those from The Crow Comes Last; some of these were translated by Archibald Colquhoun and Peggy Wright. "The Argentine Ant" and "The Cloud of Smog" (as "Smog") do not appear in this book, but rather in the translated The Watcher and Other Stories.
Stories
Starred stories are those also included in the incomplete versions of the English translation.Difficult Loves
Difficult Life
Adaptations
The "Adventure of Two Spouses" was loosely adapted into the "Renzo and Luciana" act of Boccaccio '70; the "Adventure of a Soldier" appears as one part of L'amore difficile, a film by Nino Manfredi.