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The novel of Ferrara

The novel of Ferrara

Bassani, Giorgio, 1916-2000, author.
Book 2018

"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 bri...

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Bassani, Giorgio, 1916-2000 Translations into English
Ferrara (Italy) Social life and customs Fiction
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ISBN:
9780393080155
Edition:
First American edition
Description:
xxii, 744 pages ; 25 cm
Other Title:
Romanzo di Ferrara. English
Notes:
Translations first published by Penguin Books Limited Stories originally written in Italian between 1956 and 1972
Includes bibliographical references
In English, translated from the Italian
Contents:
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
Introduction
Fables
Further news of Bruno Lattes
Ravenna
Les Neiges d'Antan
Three Apologues
Down there, at the end of the corridor
LCCN:
2018038181
Control Number:
2596159
Other Authors:
Aciman, André, writer of foreword
McKendrick, Jamie, 1955- translator
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