The release of the collection, For the Relief of Unbearable Urges, published when he was only 28 years old, represents the most dazzling literary debut of the last decade. His exhilarating, surprising and very painful, short stories combine the great Jewish-American tradition of Isaac Bashevis Singer with Gogol’s sense of irony and of the absurd. Englander is one of the few contemporary writers who has become a classic due to a single book of short stories, and he comes to Capri just a few days after having submitted his new, much-awaited work: the novel entitled A Ministry of Special Cases.