Sparrow - Softcover

Gordan, Lucy; Verga, Giovanni

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0934977429 ISBN 13: 9780934977425

Verlag: Italica Press, 2008

Inhaltsangabe

Book by Giovanni VergaLucy GordanFrances Frenaye

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Reseña del editor:

SET IN and around Catania, Sicily, on the verge of the Italian Risorgimento, Sparrow, first published as "Storia di una capinera" in 1870, tells the story of Maria, the daughter of a low-level bureaucrat, like so many other young women of the time, forced into the convent by economic and social forces. After a brief - and almost imaginary - flirtation with the son of neighbors forced together with her family during a cholera epidemic, Maria is sent back into the convent, there to go from disappointed love, to broken health, madness, and death. Verga creates a tour-de-force of emotional intensity that represents one of the late flowerings of the Romantic movement and opens the door to the Realism of the late nineteenth century. Deeply emotional in its revelation, yet bitterly ironic in its criticism of Bourbon Italy's oppression of women, Sparrow still has the capacity to fascinate and outrage while it delights the reader with the bravado of Verga's fictional constructions.

Biografía del autor:

Giovanni Verga (1840-1922) wrote novels, short stories and the play Cavalleria Rusticana. He is generally considered to be Italy's greatest novelist.

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• Verlag: Italica Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0934977429
• ISBN 13: 9780934977425
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 128