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Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. They can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere. A decade of monumental change and slaughter. Many of society’s telling questions are cast aside in times of that speak of greater needs, greater priorities. For these talented authors their ideas and words keep these magnificent stories at the forefront of our literary lives.

Pubblicata per la prima volta nel 1919, "Berecche e la guerra" verrà poi inserita da Pirandello in "Novelle per un anno". Pirandello ci presenta la storia del Prof. Berecche, studioso e cultore della Germania, che dovrà confrontarsi con il dramma e l'insensatezza della Prima Guerra Mondiale.

The Street is a short story by American horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft, written in late 1919 and first published in the December 1920 issue of the Wolverine amateur journal. The story traces the history of the titular street in a New England city, presumably Boston, from its first beginnings as "but a path" in colonial times to a quasi-supernatural occurrence in the years immediately following World War I.

Il racconto è un viaggio attraverso gli anni antichi, I Guerra mondiale, II Guerra, i partigiani, i migranti, un viaggio dell'esistenza sempre attuale con la famiglia, dolce amaro come la vita.

Gaetano Marino interpreta "La camera in attesa", classica novella di Pirandello incentrata sul patetismo degli affetti familiari sullo sfondo della Grande Guerra.