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Gregory Conti

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Gregory Conti

United States

Gregory Conti teaches English at the University of Perugia and is a regular contributor to Raritan. His most recent translations are “Seven Poems” by Elisa Biagini and The Fault Line by Paolo Rumiz (Rizzoli USA, 2015).

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Articles by Gregory Conti

From the Translator: On Giuseppe Berto’s “The Betrayal”

By Gregory Conti

Gregory Conti’s translation of Giuseppe Berto’s “The Betrayal” appears in the January 2016 issue of Words without Borders: Bad Behavior.Why translate, in 2017, a work of fiction…

The Betrayal

By Giuseppe Berto

So You said to me, “What you are about to do, do quickly.”

Translated from Italian by Gregory Conti

Horst

By Sebastiano Vassalli

I am a thief of strong emotions. I listen to the moans and shouts of others.

Translated from Italian by Gregory Conti

Sebastiano

By Sebastiano Vassalli

I’m fifty-nine years old. I live in the country, in a locality pretty far removed from the places where the destinies of people living in this era are decided. I work as a writer in a peripheral…

Translated from Italian by Gregory Conti

from “Colomba”

By Dacia Maraini

A character knocked on the door of the woman with short hair. Tapping timidly with her knuckles, the character entered the room without making a sound. She’s a modestly dressed mountain woman. On…

Translated from Italian by Gregory Conti

Spring

By Mario Rigoni Stern

The departure came in the month of March, when the thaw opened up the passes, which in our mountains were like gateways toward the countries of central Europe. They would go on foot, with the tools of…

Translated from Italian by Gregory Conti

A Christmas in 1945

By Mario Rigoni Stern

More than the snow he had to tramp through during the day, it was the cold of the night that made that time hard for him.He would leave when the glow of dawn shone on the rocky face of the mountain with…

Translated from Italian by Gregory Conti

My Grandfather

By Vitaliano Brancati

TRANSLATOR’S NOTE: Sicily has been to Italian what Ireland has been to English. The Mediterranean’s largest island, with a population of around five million people, it has produced over the…

Translated from Italian by Gregory Conti