Name and tears / Elio Vittorini
Picturesque lives / Giovanni Verga
The siren / Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
Against time / Antonio Tabucchi
Generous wine / Italo Svevo
The long voyage / Leonardo Sciascia
The tower / Fabrizia Ramondino
The trap / Luigi Pirandello
Melancholy / Cesare Pavese
Silence / Aldo Palazzeschi
A pair of eyeglasses / Anna Mari Ortese
The other side of the moon / Alberto Moravia
The ambitious ones / Elsa Morante
Sixteen, twenty-one, twenty-eight and thirty seven from Centuria / Giorgio Manganelli
Quaestio de centauris / Primo Levi
Gogol's wife / Tommaso Landolfi
My husband / Natalia Ginzburg
The mother / Carlo Emilio Gadda
A Martian in Rome / Ennio Flaiano
The smell of death / Beppe Fenoglio
Life as a couple / Luce D'Eramo
The milliner / Antonio Delfini
The hind / Grazia Deledda
Invitation to dinner / Alba de Céspedes
Elegy for Signora Nodier / Silvio D'Arzo
Malpasso / Fausta Cialente
At the station / Carlo Cassola
The golden nut / Christina Campo
Dialogue with a tortoise / Italo Calvino
And yet they are knocking at your door / Dino Buzzati
The miraculous beach, or, Prize for modesty / Massimo Bontempelli
A geographical error / Romano Bilenchi
The streetwalker / Luciano Bianciardi
The baboon / Giovanni Arpino
Barefoot / Corrado Alvaro.