Elias Portolu (European Classics)

King, Grazia; Deledda, Martha

ISBN 10: 0810112515 ISBN 13: 9780810112513

Verlag: Northwestern University Press, 1995

Inhaltsangabe

Book by Deledda Grazia

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Críticas:

"[Deledda] belongs to more than just her own day. She does more than reproduce the temporary psychological condition of her period. She has a background, and she deals with something more fundamental than sophisticated feeling . . . what she does do is create the passionate complex of a primitive populace." --D.H. Lawrence

Reseña del editor:

After serving time in mainland Italy for a minor theft, Elias Portolu returns home to Nuoro, in rural Sardinia. Lonely and vulnerable after his prison exile, he falls in love with his brother's fiancee. But he finds himself trapped by social and religious strictures, his passion and guilt winding into a spiral of anguish and paralysing indecision. For guidance he turns first to the village priest, who advises him to resist temptation; then he turns to the pagan "father of the woods," who recognises the weakness of human will and urges him to declare his love before it is too late.

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• Verlag: Northwestern University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0810112515
• ISBN 13: 9780810112513
• Einband: Rústica
• Anzahl der Seiten: 194