The Garden Of The Finzi Continis
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The Garden Of The Finzi Continis
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Author : Giorgio Bassani
language : en
Publisher: Everyman's Library
Release Date : 2005-07-19
The Garden Of The Finzi Continis written by Giorgio Bassani and has been published by Everyman's Library this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-07-19 with Fiction categories.
Giorgio Bassani’s acclaimed novel of unrequited love and the plight of the Italian Jews on the brink of World War II has become a classic of modern Italian literature. Made into an Academy Award—winning film in 1970, The Garden of the Finzi—Continis is a richly evocative and nostalgic depiction of prewar Italy. The narrator, a young middle-class Jew in the Italian city of Ferrara, has long been fascinated from afar by the Finzi-Continis, a wealthy and aristocratic Jewish family, and especially by their daughter Micol. But it is not until 1938 that he is invited behind the walls of their lavish estate, as local Jews begin to gather there to avoid the racial laws of the Fascists, and the garden of the Finzi-Continis becomes an idyllic sanctuary in an increasingly brutal world. Years after the war, the narrator returns in memory to his doomed relationship with the lovely Micol, and to the predicament that faced all the Ferrarese Jews, in this unforgettably wrenching portrait of a community about to be destroyed by the world outside the garden walls.
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Author : Giorgio Bassani
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1989
The Garden Of The Finzi Continis written by Giorgio Bassani and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) categories.
The Garden Of The Finzi Continis
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Author : Giorgio Bassani
language : en
Publisher: M J F Books
Release Date : 1996-08
The Garden Of The Finzi Continis written by Giorgio Bassani and has been published by M J F Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-08 with Italy categories.
The story of a wealthy, insular Jewish family in Fascist Italy just before the outbreak of World War II. The source of an acclaimed feature film directed by Vittorio De Sica. Translated by William Weaver.A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book
The Garden Of The Finzi Continis
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Author : Giorgio Bassani
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2005
The Garden Of The Finzi Continis written by Giorgio Bassani and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Ferrara (Italy) categories.
It is the autobiography of Giorgio Bassani, told in a time span of around 15 years, a time where the ambiguous and mysterious female figure of Micol was a central part of his life. They live in a time where racial laws are being passed by fascist Italy and as a result Micol and her family open the gates of their huge mansion and even bigger garden to a handful of jeweish friends that have been banned from any recreational activity. In this garden Micol guides the narrating "I" figure through the interior journey in search of his identity and maturity. Unfortunately this journey of truth can only end but in the sourest way; the rejection of a deep love felt by the author for Micol, his spiritual guide.
The Novel Of Ferrara
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Author : Giorgio Bassani
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2018-10-16
The Novel Of Ferrara written by Giorgio Bassani and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10-16 with Fiction categories.
Bassani's six classic books, collected for the first time in English as the epic masterwork they were intended to be. Set in the northern Italian town of Ferrara before, during, and after the Second World War, The Novel of Ferrara brings together Bassani's six classic books, fully revised as a single volume 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. These interlocking stories present a fully rounded world of unforgettable characters, memorializing 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. 'Exquisite . . . from his boyhood Ferrara and the families he knew, Bassani has carved out a corner of Italy that rises above regionalism with fiction that can stand alongside the most lingering written in Europe to day' The New York Times
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1997
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At first glance, the imposing home and garden of an established Jewish aristocracy in Italy could be mistaken for some duke's villa in England. This was 1938, and the clues of coming trouble were already in the wind. Neither the sweet memories of childhood nor the immediate joys of games and friendship could compensate for the reality which weighed heavier every passing hour. Before the war swept it all away, there was assistance to other less fortunate Jews; celebration of the holidays and reinforcement of family loyalties for those who might survive.
The Gold Rimmed Spectacles
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Author : Giorgio Bassani
language : en
Publisher: London : Faber and Faber
Release Date : 1960
The Gold Rimmed Spectacles written by Giorgio Bassani and has been published by London : Faber and Faber this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1960 with Antisemitism categories.
A new doctor arrives into the insular town of 1930s Ferrara. Fadigati is hopeful and modern, and more than anything wants to fit into his new home. But his fresh, appealing appearance soon crumbles when the townsfolk discover his homosexuality, and the young man he pays to be his lover humiliates him publicly.
The Smell Of Hay
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Author : Giorgio Bassani
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2014-08-07
The Smell Of Hay written by Giorgio Bassani and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-08-07 with Fiction categories.
A new translation of Giorgio Bassani's haunting collection of short stories that evoke 1930s Ferrara, with an introduction by Ali Smith. Isolated lives and a lost world are evoked in these memorable stories set in the Jewish-Italian community of 1930s Ferrara. A young man's unrequited love; a strange disappearance; a faded hotel; a lonely funfair; the smell of mown hay at the gates of the Jewish Cemetery - these vivid, impressionistic snapshots build a picture of life's brevity and intensity. Part of the sequence including The Gold-Rimmed Spectacles and The Garden of the Finzi-Continis, and featuring people and places from these novels, The Smell of Hay is told with a voice that is by turns intimate, ironic, elegiac and rueful. This new translation contains two pieces, added by Bassani to his earlier collection, which have never appeared in English before. 'Powerful new translations . . . Bassani began as a poet, and McKendrick's redelivery of this taut uncompromising fiction reveals resonance and generosity' Ali Smith 'Giorgio Bassani is one of the great witnesses of this century, and one of its great artists' Guardian Giorgio Bassani (1916-2000) was an Italian poet, novelist and editor. The Smell of Hay is the last in a series of six works collected together as Il romanzo di Ferrara. Other works in the cycle include The Garden of the Finzi-Continis, which received the Viareggio Prize and inspired an Academy Award-winning film adaptation by Vittorio de Sica, The Gold-Rimmed Spectacles, and Within the Walls (originally published as Five Stories of Ferrara), which won the Strega Prize. Jamie McKendrick is a poet and translator. His translations of Bassani's The Garden of the Finzi-Continis and The Gold-Rimmed Spectacles are already available as Penguin Modern Classics, and he is in the process of translating the rest of the Romanzo di Ferrara cycle anew.
Our Spoons Came From Woolworths
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Author : Barbara Comyns
language : en
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Release Date : 2015-11-10
Our Spoons Came From Woolworths written by Barbara Comyns and has been published by New York Review of Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-11-10 with Fiction categories.
“I told Helen my story and she went home and cried.” So begins Our Spoons Came from Woolworths. But Barbara Comyns’s beguiling novel is far from tragic, despite the harrowing ordeals its heroine endures. Sophia is twenty-one and naïve when she marries fellow artist Charles. She seems hardly fonder of her husband than she is of her pet newt; she can’t keep house (everything she cooks tastes of soap); and she mistakes morning sickness for the aftereffects of a bad batch of strawberries. England is in the middle of the Great Depression, and the money Sophia makes from the occasional modeling gig doesn’t make up for her husband’s indifference to paying the rent. Predictably, the marriage falters; not so predictably, Sophia’s artlessness will be the very thing that turns her life around.
Five Stories Of Ferrara
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Author : Giorgio Bassani
language : en
Publisher: New York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Release Date : 1971
Five Stories Of Ferrara written by Giorgio Bassani and has been published by New York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1971 with Ferrara (Italy) categories.
The main theme of Giorgio Bassani's novels and short stories, which have earned him wide acclaim outside Italy, has been the advent of anti-Semitism in the provincial Italian city of Ferrara during World War II. Earlier he had a successful career as an editor with a major publishing house, being credited with helping to bring to public notice The Leopard by Tomasi Lampedusa. Bassani edited a literary magazine and was director of the Italian radio-television network. His first collection of short pieces was A City on the Plain, written under the pseudonym Giacomo Marchi. His volumes of poems were finally collected and published in 1963. The stories and novels that were to make him famous abroad began to appear in the 1950s. They include A Prospect of Ferrara (1960), and The Gold Rimmed Spectacles (1960). A film version of The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (1962) by Vittorio De Sica has become a public television classic.