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Grazia Deledda


Born
in Nuoro, Italy
September 27, 1871

Died
August 15, 1936

Genre
Literature & Fiction


Grazia Maria Cosima Damiana Deledda was an Italian writer who received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1926 "for her idealistically inspired writings which with plastic clarity picture the life on her native island [i.e. Sardinia] and with depth and sympathy deal with human problems in general". She was the first Italian woman to receive the prize, and only the second woman in general after Selma Lagerlöf was awarded hers in 1909.
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Average rating: 3.71 · 17,400 ratings · 2,050 reviews · 472 distinct works • Similar authors
Canne al vento
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3.77 avg rating — 8,282 ratings — published 1913 — 413 editions
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La madre
3.68 avg rating — 1,236 ratings — published 1920 — 220 editions
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Cenere
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 967 ratings — published 1904 — 6 editions
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Elias Portolu
3.66 avg rating — 940 ratings — published 1903 — 125 editions
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Cosima
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3.57 avg rating — 816 ratings — published 1936 — 80 editions
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L'edera
3.71 avg rating — 594 ratings — published 1908 — 6 editions
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Marianna Sirca
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3.74 avg rating — 365 ratings — published 1915 — 7 editions
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After the Divorce
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3.54 avg rating — 308 ratings — published 1902 — 74 editions
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Il paese del vento
3.60 avg rating — 230 ratings — published 1931 — 39 editions
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La via del male
3.85 avg rating — 215 ratings — published 1896
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“Ma perché questo, Efix, dimmi, tu che hai girato il mondo: è da per tutto così? Perché la sorte ci stronca così, come canne?
– Sì, – egli disse allora, – siamo proprio come le canne al vento, donna Ester mia. Ecco perché! Siamo canne, e la sorte è il vento.”
― Grazia Deledda, Reeds in the Wind
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“Little by little they all gathered around him, entering through the cracks like moonbeams...[b]ut once the wind of misfortune blows, people disperse like little clouds around the moon when the wind blows off the mountains.”
― Grazia Deledda, Reeds in the Wind
tags: bad-omens, family-curse, misfortune, omens
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“Eccola dunque col pensiero laggiù.
Le par d’essere ancora fanciulla, arrampicata sul belvedere del prete, in una sera di maggio. Una grande luna di rame sorge dal mare, e tutto il mondo pare d’oro e di perla. La fisarmonica riempie coi suoi gridi lamentosi il cortile illuminato da un fuoco d’alaterni il cui chiarore rossastro fa spiccare sul grigio del muro la figura svelta e bruna del suonatore, i visi violacei delle donne e dei ragazzi che ballano il ballo sardo. Le ombre si muovono fantastiche sull’erba calpestata e sui muri della chiesa; brillano i bottoni d’oro, i galloni argentei dei costumi, i tasti della fisarmonica: il resto si perde nella penombra perlacea della notte lunare. Noemi ricordava di non aver mai preso parte diretta alla festa, mentre le sorelle maggiori ridevano e si divertivano, e Lia accovacciata come una lepre in un angolo erboso del cortile forse fin da quel tempo meditava la fuga.
La festa durava nove giorni di cui gli ultimi tre diventavano un ballo tondo continuo accompagnato da suoni e canti: Noemi stava sempre sul belvedere, tra gli avanzi del banchetto; intorno a lei scintillavano le bottiglie vuote, i piatti rotti, qualche mela d’un verde ghiacciato, un vassoio e un cucchiaino dimenticati; anche le stelle oscillavano sopra il cortile come scosse dal ritmo della danza. No, ella non ballava, non rideva, ma le bastava veder la gente a divertirsi perché sperava di poter anche lei prender parte alla festa della vita.
Ma gli anni eran passati e la festa della vita s’era svolta lontana dal paesetto, e per poterne prender parte sua sorella Lia era fuggita di casa…
Lei, Noemi, era rimasta sul balcone cadente della vecchia dimora come un tempo sul belvedere del prete.”
― Grazia Deledda, Reeds in the Wind
tags: sardinia, women
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