Viareggio Prize (Premio Viareggio / Premio Letterario Viareggio-Rèpaci) Premio Viareggio-Rèpaci
Edition 4 (1933)
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Achille Campanile
Winner
A short-story collection that flips everyday scenes on their head through miscommunication and assumption. Beneath its light touch, Campanile's familiar humour emerges as a way of shifting how things are seen.
A small conversational slip is enough to alter the way the world looks.
220 pages
humourwordplaymiscommunicationeveryday absurdity