SOURCE: A review of A Music behind the Wall: Selected Stories, Vol. 1, in Kirkus Reviews, Vol. LXI, No. 8, April 15, 1994, p. 501.

In the following review, the critic remarks on the themes and plots of the stories collected in A Music behind the Wall.

This first volume of a planned two-volume collection [A Music behind the Wall: Selected Stories] could almost serve as a primer on old-fashioned Italian short fiction.

An Excerpt from "the Submerged Continent"

I don't want to talk about all the dreams we dream when we're asleep. As said before, they are largely objective, a memory of the facts and events of the day. I want only to talk about dreams which come from outside, from the parts of ourselves we have lost, meaning our past, the time that no longer exists: dreams which sometimes seem to bring us news of an unknown land where that past...