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"Pinocchio" by Carlo Collodi (the 1983 edition is just one of many) is a classic story about a wooden puppet who comes to life and goes through a series of adventures in his desire to become a real boy.
A collection of 41 short stories: the characters act like "automatons" – mechanical, listless, incapable of authentic reaction to life's problems. Modern man alienated, trapped in routine, sex, money and passivity, without will or feelings.
In Florence 1925–1926, in the poor Via del Corno, the residents live in love, poverty and fear. The arrival of fascism destroys the community: lovers fight, some die from violence, but popular solidarity survives.
No Return (1938) follows the lives of eight young women in a Roman student dormitory, their loves, ambitions, and fates in Italian society before World War II, showing that the past cannot be returned or escaped from itself.
Adriana, a beautiful Roman girl from a poor background, wants a normal life, but her mother pushes her into posing for painters and prostitution. Her love affairs lead her through betrayal, violence and corruption to her final resignation.
Papini's "Gog", in the edition with an afterword by Mate Ujević, brings a provocative collection of satirical and philosophical writings that expose human weaknesses, social absurdities and the spiritual crisis of modern man.