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Carregando... Within the Walls (1960)de Giorgio Bassani
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Registre-se no LibraryThing tpara descobrir se gostará deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. Questa raccolta di racconti ("Lidia Mantovani", "La passeggiata prima di cena", "Una lapide in via Mazzini", "Gli ultimi anni di Clelia Trotti" e "Una notte del '43") valse a Giorgio Bassani il premio Strega 1956. In comune le cinque storie hanno una sorta di dolente consapevolezza e l'ambientazione: Ferrara, avvolta dal pesante panneggio scuro del fascismo. Bassani ci porta nell'animo di questa "gente, per il resto, quasi sempre per bene": la ragazza madre Lidia Mantovani; il dottor Elia Corcos in perenne scontro con la moglie; il sopravvissuto al lager Geo Josz; la vecchia socialista Clelia Trotti, lasciata morire in carcere. Storie diverse eppure vicine, accomunate dalla difficoltà con la quale i protagonisti si adattano a una provincia italiana che da un lato consola, dall'altro respinge qualunque cosa non le sia propria. Persone comprese. 'Within the Walls' is an interesting collection of five tales all set within the confines of the Italian city of Ferrara. They cover such themes as love and betrayal, and the justification for the lives we lead; each sits in the foreground with the Italian city and its difficult history always ready to lean over your shoulder and reframe the plot. Bassani was a magnificent writer, of that there can be no doubt, and although I did find my attention wandering at times, these stories are still definitely worth the effort of paying close attention to. You learn so much about the craft of writing here. Not sure how to manage the exclamation mark in your prose? Read Bassani! It feels like he's telling you the story directly, and when somebody in his audience interjects he must respond with a parenthetical aside capped with a wondrous exclamation mark. Speaking of parentheses, Bassani was also a master of the run-on, multi-clause sentence, with so many branches that it would be nightmare for anybody to draw a sentence diagram of much that you'll find here. One wonders, in fact, if David Foster Wallace read much Bassani before he fell so in love with the footnote... sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
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A new translation of Giorgio Bassani's award winning collection of novellas, which inspired his masterpiece The Garden of the Finzi-Continis. A young working class woman abandoned by her bourgeois lover; the tensions of intermarriage between established classes and communities; a holocaust survivor seemingly back from the dead; a formidable socialist activist defying house arrest; the only surviving witness to the first local atrocity of the Second World War. In these five unforgettable stories, Bassani gave life to the characters that would inform the Romanzo di Ferrara, his suite of novels depicting life in the city. Moving, poetic, atmospheric and artfully observed, this collection is a distillation of Bassani's genius. It won the Strega Prize on first publication as Cinque Storie Ferraresi in 1956, and established Bassani as one of the greatest Italian writers of the twentieth century. 'Giorgio Bassani is one of the great witnesses of this century, and one of its great artists' Guardian 'The most uncompromising, merciful and merciless writer' Ali Smith Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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IL MURO DI CINTA (***)
LIDA MANTOVANI (***)
LA PASSEGGIATA PRIMA DI CENA (***)
"Why does my pen not drop from my hand on approaching the infinite pity and tragedy of all the past?"
H. James, Notebooks
(pagina 55)
UNA LAPIDE IN VIA MAZZINI (****)
GLI ULTIMI ANNI DI CLELIA TROTTI (***)
UNA NOTTE DEL '43 (****)
GLI OCCHIALI D'ORO (*****)
"Il sole al tramonto, forando una scura coltre di nuvole, bassa sull'orizzonte, illuminava vivamente ogni cosa: il cimitero ebraico ai miei piedi, l'abside e il campanile della chiesa di San Cristoforo poco più in là, e sullo sfondo, alte sopra la bruma distesa dell'abitato, le lontane moli del Castello Estense e del duomo."
(pagina 291)
IN ESILIO (****) ( )