The Garden of Finzi-Continis - Couverture souple

Bassani, Giorgio

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0156345706 ISBN 13 : 9780156345705

Editeur : Mariner Books, 1977

Synopsis

Book by Giorgio Bassani

A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

“Giorgio Bassani is one of the great witnesses of this century, and one of its great artists.” –The Guardian

“Curiously haunting and poetic . . . Like Proust, a novelist to whom he is inevitably compared, Bassani is a specialist in decadence and nostalgia.” –Christian Science Monitor

“Bassani looms large in the Italian literary scene . . . [The Garden of the Finzi-Continis] is an honest book, and tells with a kind of probing tenderness a true story of sensitive and vulnerable youth in a somber decade.” –Saturday Review

“The Garden of the Finzi-Continis is first and foremost a love story and on quite a different level from anything else Bassani wrote . . . Beneath every other theme and concern, and whether or not prompted by the political situation, the question [the novel] quite explicitly ask[s] is:
what does it mean to have lived?” –from the new Introduction by Tim Parks

Biographie de l'auteur :

Giorgio Bassani was born in 1916. From 1938 onwards he became involved in various anti-fascist activities for which he was imprisoned in 1943. His works include The Gold-Rimmed Spectacles, and Five Stories of Ferrara (Within the Walls), which won the Strega Prize. The Garden of the Finzi-Continis was awarded the Viareggio Prize in 1962 and was made into a feature film.

William Weaver was an award-winning poet and translator. He died in 2013.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Mariner Books
• Date d'édition: 1977
• ISBN 10: 0156345706
• ISBN 13: 9780156345705
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 204