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Sto caricando le informazioni... Stories for the Yearsdi Luigi Pirandello
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Translation makes it choppy to read ( ) Wonderful collection of short stories. A new translation by Virginia Jewess. I have heard of this author before but mainly relating to his drama. I hadn't read any of his short stories before. And what a wonderful collection of stories they are. Pirandello is regarded as one of Italy's great modernists. He won the Nobel prize in literature in 1934 (for his drama). In 1922, Pirandello began gathering his short stories into a collection, aiming to write a story for each day - "Novelle per un anno" (Short Stories for a Year). The title of this collection is in his format and commemorates his title. Modernism is a period of literature that I particularly enjoy and this collection totally lived up to my expectations. The stories reminded me very much of the stories of Chekhov and some of Katherine Mansfield. Amazing. I definitely recommend this book. Thank you to Netgally and the publisher for sending me this ARC. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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Regarded as one of Europe ́s great modernists, Pirandello was also a master storyteller, a fine observer of the drama of daily life with a remarkable sense of the crushing burdens of class, gender, and social conventions. Set in the author ́s birthplace of Sicily, where the arid terrain and isolated villages map the fragile interior world of his characters, and in Rome, where modern life threatens centuries-old traditions, these original stories are sun baked with the deep lore of Italian folktales. In ́The Jar, ́ a broken earthenware pot pits its owner, a quarrelsome landholder, against a clever inventor of a mysterious glue. ́The Dearly Departed ́ tells the story of a young widow and her new husband on their honeymoon, haunted at every turn by the sly visage of the deceased. The scorned lover, the despondent widow, the intransigent bureaucrat, the wretched peasant ́Pirandello ́s characters expose the human condition in all its fatalism, injustice, and raw beauty. For lovers of Calvino and Pasolini, these picturesque stories preserve a memory of an Italy long gone, but one whose recurring concerns still speak to us today. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)852.912Literature Italian Italian drama 1900- 1900-1999 1900-1945Classificazione LCVotoMedia:
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