Cavalleria Rusticana

by Giovanni Verga Narrated by Valerio Di Stefano

Overview

Uno dei testi più significativi scritto da Giovanni Verga è “Cavalleria rusticana“, appartenente alla prima raccolta di novelle intitolata “Vita dei campi” e pubblicata dall'editore Treves a Milano, nel 1880. La storia è ambientata a Vizzini, un paese siciliano, nel secondo Ottocento. I protagonisti del racconto ci fanno rivivere le loro storie e vicende umane provando sentimenti diversi come l'amore, la gelosia, l'invidia, il desiderio di vendetta e il dolore, adottando come metodo comunicativo un linguaggio definito “popolare”.

Editorial Reviews

James Wood

D.H. Lawrence, who lived for a while in Sicily, discovered Verga's work with great excitement and translated him in the 1920's, He rightly called "Jeli the Shephard" and another story "Rosso Malpelo" two of the greatest ever written, At his best, as G.H. McWilliam's distinguished new translations of the stories allow us to see, Verga is quite the equal of Chekhov, in the fiercely unsentimental depiction of ordinary rural life, in the coaxing of opaque inner lives, and most of all in his self-smothering ability to see life not as a writer might see it, but entirely from within the minds of his mostly uneducated characters.
—London Review of Books

Product Details

BN ID:	2940176639636
Publisher:	Classici Stranieri
Publication date:	09/04/2020
Edition description:	Unabridged
Language:	Italian

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