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Bassani, Giorgio, author.
McKendrick, Jamie, translator.
Aciman, André, writer of foreword.
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Bassani, Giorgio, 1916-2000, -- Translations into English.
Bassani, Giorgio, 1916-2000,
Fiction -- Literary
FICTION / Historical / World War II.
Manners and customs
Fiction -- Literary
FICTION / Historical / World War II.
Italian fiction -- Translations into English.
Ferrara (Italy) -- Social life and customs
Italy -- Ferrara.
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The novel of Ferrara / Giorgio Bassani ; translated by Jamie McKendrick ; foreword by André Aciman.
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Bassani, Giorgio, author.
, McKendrick, Jamie, translator.
, Aciman, André, writer of foreword.
New York, N.Y. : W.W. Norton & Company, 2018.
Description:
xxii, 744 pages ; 25 cm
Edition:
First American edition.
Contents:
Foreword / by André Aciman -- Introduction / by Jamie McKendrick -- I. Within the walls. Lida Mantovani -- The stroll before dinner -- A memorial tablet in Via Mazzini -- The final years of Clelia Trotti -- A night in '43 -- II. The gold-rimmed spectacles -- III. The garden of the Finzi-Continis -- IV. Behind the door -- V. The heron -- VI. The smell of hay. Two fables -- Further news of Bruno Lattes -- Ravenna -- Les Neiges d'Antan -- Three Apologues -- Down there, at the end of the corridor.
Summary:
"Giorgio Bassani's six classic books, collected for the first time in English as the epic masterwork they were intended to be. Among the masters of twentieth-century literature, Giorgio Bassani and his Northern Italian hometown of Ferrara "are as inseparable as James Joyce and Dublin or Italo Svevo and Trieste" (from the Introduction). Now published in English for the first time as the unified masterwork Bassani intended, The Novel of Ferrara brings together Bassani's six classics, fully revised by the author at the end of his life: Within the Walls, The Gold-Rimmed Spectacles, The Garden of the Finzi-Continis, Behind the Door, The Heron, and The Smell of Hay. Set in the northern Italian town of Ferrara before, during, and after the Second World War, these interlocking stories present a fully rounded world of unforgettable characters: the respected doctor whose homosexuality is tolerated until he is humiliatingly exposed by an exploitative youth; a survivor of the Nazi death camps whose neighbors' celebration of his return gradually turns to ostracism; a young man discovering the ugly, treacherous price that people will pay for a sense of belonging; the Jewish aristocrat whose social position has been erased; the indomitable schoolteacher, Clelia Trotti, whose Communist idealism disturbs and challenges a postwar generation. The Novel of Ferrara memorializes not only the Ferrarese people, but the city itself, which assumes a character and a voice deeply inflected by the Jewish community to which the narrator belongs. Suffused with new life by acclaimed translator and poet Jamie McKendrick, this seminal work seals Bassani's reputation as 'a quietly insistent chronicler of our age's various menaces to liberty' (Jonathan Keates)"--
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Fiction.
Translations.
Historical fiction
Short stories
Notes:
Translations first published by Penguin Books Ltd. Stories originally written in Italian between 1956 and 1972.
In English, translated from the Italian.
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