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Registre-se no LibraryThing tpara descobrir se gostará deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. Grande scrittore, Giovanni Verga. E' essenziale la sua scrittura, eppure è piena di dettagli, è tragica, eppure ha sprazzi di ironia, è cruda, ma capace di squarci poetici. Non l'avevo mai letto prima, ma di sicuro leggerò ancora qualcosa di suo. ( ) Verga’s work is associated with the realism of the late 19th century and most of his stories depict the simple and harsh life of Sicilian peasants. This collection is named for his story Cavalleria Rusticana, mostly known in the English-speaking world for Mascagni’s opera of the same name. The actual story (the opera was based on Verga’s dramatic adaptation) is quite short, a quick tale of adultery and violence. These often appear in Verga’s other stories, along with poverty and privation. A couple stories betray Verga’s familiarity with upper class life – “Picturesque Lives” has its narrator reminiscing about visiting a small village with an unnamed woman, “How, when and why” is about an affair amongst the wealthy. Most of the stories are fairly involving but the more memorable ones tend to be the extended narratives – the early “Nedda”, about a farm laborer considered poor even by comparison to the other girls, whose brief happiness is destroyed by conventional morality, “Jeli the Shepherd”, a leisurely depiction of the life of a good-natured and poor shepherd who never forgets his childhood sweetheart but who meets a bad ending, and “Rosso Malpelo” which follows a nasty, unhappy miner who also comes to a bad end. Of the shorter stories, “The She-Wolf” – an intense depiction of a voracious man-eater – and the feverish “Wolf-hunt” – another one about adultery – were probably the most memorable. As is often mentioned, Verga succeeds in giving his poor characters dignity without, for the most part, romanticizing or sentimentalizing their plight. sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
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The stories of Giovanni Verga (1840-1922) are wonderful evocations of ordinary Italian life, focusing in particular on his native Sicily. In an original and dynamic prose style, he portrays such eternal human themes as love, honour and adultery with rich and colourful language. The inspiration for Mascagni's opera, 'Cavalleria Rusticana' depicts a young man's triumphal return home from the army, spoilt when he learns that his beloved is engaged to another man. Verga's acute awareness of the hardships and aspirations of peasant life can be seen in stories such as 'Nedda', 'Picturesque Lives' and 'Black Bread', while others such as 'The Reverend' and 'Don Licciu Papa' show the dominance of the church and the law in the Sicilian communities he portrays so vividly. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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Google Books — Carregando... GênerosClassificação decimal de Dewey (CDD)853.8Literature Italian Italian fiction Later 19th century 1859–1900Classificação da Biblioteca do Congresso dos E.U.A. (LCC)AvaliaçãoMédia:
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