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Conversations In Sicily
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Author : Elio Vittorini
language : en
Publisher: Canongate Books
Release Date : 2012-09-27
Conversations In Sicily written by Elio Vittorini and has been published by Canongate Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-09-27 with Fiction categories.
Vividly capturing the heat, sounds and smells of southern Italy, Conversations in Sicily astounds with its modernity, lyricism and originality. Driven by a sense of total disconnection, the narrator embarks on a journey from northern Italy to Sicily, the home he has not seen in some fifteen years. Through the conversations of the islanders and a reunion with his mother, he gradually begins to feel reconnected. But to what kind of world? Written during Mussolini's time in power, Conversations in Sicily is one of the great novels of anti-fascism.
Conversation In Sicily
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Author : Elio Vittorini
language : en
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Release Date : 1988
Conversation In Sicily written by Elio Vittorini and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with Italian fiction categories.
In Sicily
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Author : Elio Vittorini
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1949
In Sicily written by Elio Vittorini and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1949 with American fiction categories.
"Vittorini's Conversations in Sicily stands as a modern classic, not only for its powerful thematic resonance as one of the great novels of Italian anti-fascism but also as a trailblazer for its style, which blends literary modernism with the pre-modern fable in a prose of lyric beauty. Comparing Vittorini's work to Picasso's, Italo Calvino described Conversations as "the book-Guernica." The novel begins at a time in the narrator's life when nothing seems to matter; whether he is reading newspaper posters blaring of wartime massacres, lying in bed with his wife or girlfriend, or flipping through the pages of a dictionary it is all the same to him - until he embarks on a journey back to Sicily, the home he has not seen in some fifteen years. In traveling through the Sicilian countryside and in variously hilarious and tragic conversations with its people - his indomitable mother in particular - he reconnects with his roots and rediscovers some basic human values."--Goodreads
Conversazione In Sicilia Nome E Lacrime
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Author : Elio Vittorini
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1978
Conversazione In Sicilia Nome E Lacrime written by Elio Vittorini and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1978 with Foreign Language Study categories.
Conversazione In Sicilia
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Author : Elio Vittorini
language : it
Publisher: Bompiani
Release Date : 2021-04-14
Conversazione In Sicilia written by Elio Vittorini and has been published by Bompiani this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-04-14 with Fiction categories.
Un libro importante, che non teme di guardare in faccia la realtà e le sorti dell’umanità, oggi più attuale che mai. Silvestro si sente impotente di fronte alle sofferenze del genere umano. Il padre per lettera gli comunica che ha lasciato la madre per vivere con un’altra donna. Silvestro intraprende un lungo viaggio in treno da Bologna per fare visita alla madre e ritrovare il paese natale in Sicilia, abbandonato quindici anni prima. Lì accompagna la donna ad assistere i malati di malaria e di tisi e ha una rivelazione: queste persone sono il “mondo offeso”, la parte di umanità quotidianamente oppressa e rassegnata al proprio destino. Con un linguaggio estremamente letterario, ispirato ai silenzi e alle ombre di una Sicilia insolita, invernale e montuosa, Elio Vittorini, siciliano emigrato al nord, racconta in questo romanzo la propria terra e la trasforma in metafora del mondo intero e dell’esistenza. Il romanzo-manifesto dell’impegno etico e civile dell’autore torna in un’edizione speciale a ottant’anni dalla prima pubblicazione con Bompiani.
Sicily As Metaphor
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Author : Leonardo Sciascia
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1994-01-01
Sicily As Metaphor written by Leonardo Sciascia and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994-01-01 with Authors, Italian categories.
"Some time ago a critic writing in the Times Literary Supplement noted that Sciascia's "style shows how strongly, how single-mindedly and intelligently he has reacted against the candyfloss fluffiness of so much around him. What he has to say is compressed so tightly that his writing is rock hard, sometimes dry; in contrast to the almost crazy carelessness in the use of words so often found in Italy, his words are picked so exactly that they form mosaics of their own, precise patterns of emotional or intellectual meaning beyond the precise sense of what they seem to be saying.""--Jacket.
Sicily It S Not Quite Tuscany
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Author : Shamus Sillar
language : en
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Release Date : 2012
Sicily It S Not Quite Tuscany written by Shamus Sillar and has been published by Allen & Unwin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Travel categories.
Packed with history, culture, misadventure, and a little Mafioso action, the story of a newly married couple and the year they spent in Sicily Gill and I had dreamt of living in Italy for as long as we'd been together. This is the story of an Aussie couple who sought a Mediterranean Sea change only to find themselves in the sprawling Sicilian city of Catania—the "anti-Tuscany" of Italy. There, any romantic visions they'd had of restoring a villa or stamping their entwined feet in vats of Chianti grapes disappeared faster than the chief witness in a Cosa Nostra trial. Shamus and Gill's tiny apartment in Catania was located in a grim neighborhood opposite a triple-X cinema and a shop selling coffins, nearby Mount Etna erupted soon after their arrival, a mystery ailment left Shamus in a neck brace, they crashed a Vespa, and they had regular dealings with at least one Mafioso. This, then, is an Italian sea change with grit. But it's also a story of optimism, endurance, and acceptance; an exploration of the minutiae of Sicilian culture, history, food, and religion; and an example of how to find beauty—and humor—in the most unexpected of places.
South Of Somewhere
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Author : Robert V. Camuto
language : en
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Release Date : 2021-10
South Of Somewhere written by Robert V. Camuto and has been published by U of Nebraska Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-10 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Robert V. Camuto sets out across modern Southern Italy in search of the "South-ness" that defined his youthful experience and views the world through wine, food, and families.
The Invention Of Sicily
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Author : Jamie Mackay
language : en
Publisher: Verso Books
Release Date : 2021-07-13
The Invention Of Sicily written by Jamie Mackay and has been published by Verso Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-07-13 with History categories.
Whether you’re vacationing in Italy or simply an armchair traveler, this guide to the Mediterranean island of Sicily is a dazzling introduction to the region’s rich 3,000-year history and culture. A rich and fascinating cultural history of the Mediterranean’s enigmatic heart Sicily is at the crossroads of the Mediterranean, and for over 2000 years has been the gateway between Europe, Africa and the East. It has long been seen as the frontier between Western Civilization and the rest, but never definitively part of either. Despite being conquered by empires—Romans, Byzantines, Arabs, Normans, Hapsburg Spain—it remains uniquely apart. The island’s story maps a mosaic that mixes the story of myth and wars, maritime empires and reckless crusades, and a people who refuse to be ruled. In this riveting, rich history Jamie Mackay peels away the layers of this most mysterious of islands. This story finds its origins in ancient myth but has been reinventing itself across centuries: in conquest and resistance. Inseparable from these political and social developments are the artefacts of the nation’s cultural patrimony—ancient amphitheaters, Arab gardens, Baroque Cathedrals, as well as great literature such as Giuseppe di Lampedusa’s masterpiece The Leopard, and the novels and plays of Luigi Pirandello. In its modern era, Sicily has been the site of revolution, Cosa Nostra and, in the twenty-first century, the epicenter of the refugee crisis.
Reunion In Sicily
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Author : Jerre Mangione
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1950
Reunion In Sicily written by Jerre Mangione and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1950 with Sicily (Italy) categories.