The Flame - Couverture rigide

D'Annunzio, Gabriele

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0941419894 ISBN 13 : 9780941419895

Editeur : Marsilio Pub, 1995

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Excerpt from The Flame (IL Fuoco)

His next important novel, [1 trionfo delamorte (the Triumph of Death) was produced in 1896. This brought upon him a storm of mingled applause and criticism admiration for its marvelous beauty of literary expression, condemnation of the realistic study of a degenerate whose sins lead him to suicide. But, with a proud defiance of criticism, with eyes fixed Only on his art, he dared after this achievement to write the self-revelatory novel that is known as his masterpiece - [l fuoco (the In this great novel, which may fairly be called unique, we recognize the personification of a renascence 'oi Latin genius. Under the thinnest veil of disguise, the author presents his own figure and that of one of the world's greatest tragic actresses, revealing the most intimate de tails of their well known friendship. On this picture of the most romantic of love-afiairs, in Venice, the most romantic of cities, he has lavished his finest strokes of genius, writing of feminine nature with rare truth and skill, and an exquisite intuition as to the workings of a woman's mind and the throbbings of her heart.

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Originally published in 1907. This volume from the Cornell University Library's print collections was scanned on an APT BookScan and converted to JPG 2000 format by Kirtas Technologies. All titles scanned cover to cover and pages may include marks notations and other marginalia present in the original volume.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Marsilio Pub
• Date d'édition: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0941419894
• ISBN 13: 9780941419895
• Reliure: Relié