Questo testo raccoglie quattro romanzi brevi di Alvaro ("L'uomo nel labirinto", "Solitudine", "Il mare", "L'ultima delle mille e una notte"): quattro storie dal sapore metafisico che disegnano a tinte forti la malattia della civiltà mediterranea.
Corrado Alvaro was an Italian journalist and writer of novels, short stories, screenplays and plays. He often used the verismo style to describes the hopeless poverty in his native Calabria. His first success was Gente in Aspromonte (Revolt in Aspromonte), which examined the exploitation of rural peasants by greedy landowners in Calabria, and is considered by many critics to be his masterpiece.