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Title	:	Little Novels of Sicily
Author	:	Giovanni Verga
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 156 pages
Published	:	February 1st 2000 by Steerforth (first published 1883)
Categories	:	Short Stories. Classics. Cultural. Italy. European Literature. Italian Literature. Fiction. Literature. 19th Century

Little Novels of Sicily

Giovanni Verga

Paperback | Pages: 156 pages

Rating: 3.77 | 182 Users | 25 Reviews

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First Published in a single volume in 1883, the stories collected in Little Novels of Sicily are drawn from the Sicily of Giovanni Verga's childhood, reported at the time to be the poorest place in Europe. Verga's style is swift, sure, and implacable; he plunges into his stories almost in midbreath, and tells them with a stark economy of words. There's something dark and tightly coiled at the heart of each story, an ironic, bitter resolution that is belied by the deceptive simplicity of Verga's prose, and Verga strikes just when the reader's not expecting it.

Translator D. H. Lawrence surely found echoes of his own upbringing in Verga's sketches of Sicilian life: the class struggle between property owners and tenants, the relationship between men and the land, and the unsentimental, sometimes startlingly lyric evocation of the landscape. Just as Lawrence veers between loving and despising the industrial North and its people, so too Verga shifts between affection for and ironic detachment from the superstitious, uneducated, downtrodden working poor of Sicily. If Verga reserves pity for anyone or anything, it is the children and the animals, but he doesn't spare them. In his experience, it is the innocents who suffer first and last and always.

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Original Title:	Novelle rusticane
ISBN:	188364254X (ISBN13: 9781883642549)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	Sicily(Italy)

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Stories of extreme poverty and class struggle in mid-nineteenth century Sicily. Grim reading but certainly a vivid account of inequality in Italys history.

Suprisinly good. I found this book by chance in a second hand bookstore in Chiangmai. It paints a very harsh picture of life in the Sicilian countryside in the 19th century. Reminds of Bertolluci's Novecento, or is it the other way around?

Historias sicilianas: Giovanni Verga y el espíritu de la tierraHace algunos años elegí como complemento a mis estudios de Literatura Comparada un par de asignaturas sobre literatura italiana. Aquellos cursos me impactaron profundamente y cambiaron en diferentes aspectos mi forma de entender la escritura. En primer lugar, gracias a una refrescante relectura de Boccaccio, de Petrarca y, como no, de Dante. Después, por toda la lírica de Leopardi, por el barroquismo de Dannuzio, por Lampedusa y por

This was so not what I thought it was. It was very difficult to read and then I didnt know what I had read. Too scholarly for me.

First published in Italian in 1883, this collection was later translated into English by DH Lawrence. Poverty is the great equalizer, and the powerful are those of wealth, who have the God-given right to determine the lives of others. The voice of those without is so clear, their passive acceptance of fate.

Giovanni Verga is one of the few italian writer i love. I like his way of representing my country.

A escrita de Verga é um estilo simples de ser compreendido, nestes dois contos ele aborda o sobrenatural (fantasma de Donna Violante) em " As histórias do Castelo de Terezza", e narra a história de um fazendeiro sem herdeiros que toda a sua felicidade é a fazenda que construiu em "A Fazenda".Foi a minha primeira experiência com este escritor. Já li muitos escritores italianos. Mas não são todos que me prendem do início ao fim. Espero ler em breve uma novela ou romance de Verga-