SICILIAN TALES—Once Upon a Time, C’era una volta

Sicilian Tales—Once Upon a Time C’era una volta, Luigi Capuana, Translated by Santi Buscemi, Dante University Press, ISBN 9780937832516, 382 pages Sicilian Tales is Santi Buscemi’s translation of Luigi Capuana C’er una volta. A bilingual edition with an introduction to Sicilian literature, it contains 20 fairy tales written for children in the Capuana family. Buscemi claims “this collection is more optimistic than the author’s earlier works. In his preface, Capuana suggests that he has now entered a new venue: ‘Readers will not easily imagine the joy I experienced from this wok as I found myself, all of a sudden, creating in my imagination that marvelous world of fairies, magicians, kings, queens, monsters, and spells that make up the artistic landscapes of a young mind.’”