Ithaca College

 Marella Feltrin-Morris (Modern Languages and Literatures) has published the first English translation of “La toccatina” ("Tap Tap") a 1906 short story by the Italian writer Luigi Pirandello (1867-1936), in Exchanges: Journal of Literary Translation.

 In Luigi Pirandello’s 1906 short story “Tap Tap,” Cristoforo Golisch’s friend Beniamino Lenzi has recently had a stroke. Shocked to see Lenzi walking with a cane and slurring his words, Golisch vows to kill himself if the same fate should ever occur to him. However, when Golisch himself suffers a stroke, he eagerly believes the doctor’s cautious lie about the possibility of recovery and adapts immediately to his new condition, becoming a mirror image of his friend. 

The original, the translation, and the translator’s note are accessible at the following link: https://exchanges.uiowa.edu/issues/tether/tap-tap/