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Storia di una capinera e altri romanzi
«Tutto ciò che sento per quell'uomo è nuovo, è strano, è spaventoso... Questo è quello che al mondo chiamano amore.» Il volume raccoglie tre romanzi giovanili di Giovanni Verga. Storia di una capinera racconta la storia di Maria, una ragazza costretta dal padre a chiudersi in convento senza vocazione, che per la prima volta vive un sentimento d’amore struggente e passionale. Una peccatrice vede protagonista Narcisa, moglie di un conte, che cede alle lusinghe di uno studente di legge con velleità letterarie, dopo che lui è divenuto famoso. Ma il loro amore non sarà destinato alla felicità. Tigre reale è invece il racconto della passione incontrollabile di Giorgio La Ferlita, diplomatico siciliano, per una sconosciuta contessa russa che incontra per caso a Firenze, durante un ballo. L’amicizia iniziale si trasforma in attrazione e metterà in discussione i rispettivi matrimoni. Tre romanzi che raccontano il tema sempre attuale dell’amore appassionato e conflittuale, in continuo scontro con le convenzioni sociali.
355 pages, Paperback
Published May 11, 2021
About the author
Giovanni Verga
519 books211 followersGiovanni Verga was an Italian realist writer, best known for his depictions of life in Sicily, and especially for the short story Cavalleria Rusticana and the novel I Malavoglia.
The first son of Giovanni Battista Catalano Verga and Caterina Di Mauro, Verga was born into a prosperous family of Catania in Sicily. He began writing in his teens, producing the largely unpublished historical novel Amore e Patria (Love and Country); then, although nominally studying law at the University of Catania, he used money his father had given him to publish his I Carbonari della Montagna (The Carbonari of the Mountain) in 1861 and 1862. This was followed by Sulle Lagune (In the Lagoons) in 1863.
Meanwhile, Verga had been serving in the Catania National Guard (1860-64), after which he travelled to Florence several times, settling there in 1869.
He moved to Milan in 1872, where he developed his new approach, characterized by the use of dialogue to develop character, which resulted in his most significant works. In 1880 his story collection Vita dei Campi (Life in the Fields), (including Fantasticheria, La Lupa, and Pentolacchia) most of which were about rural Sicily, came out; it included the Cavalleria Rusticana, which was adapted for the theatre and later the libretto of the Mascagni opera. Verga's short story, "Malaria", was one of the first literary depictions of the disease.
He then embarked on a projected series of five novels, but only completed two, I Malavoglia and Mastro-Don Gesualdo (1889), the latter of which was the last major work of his literary career. Both are widely recognized as masterpieces.
In 1894 Verga moved back to the house he was born in. In 1920 he was elected a senator. He died of a cerebral thrombosis in 1922.
The Teatro Verga in Catania is named after him.
In the book by Silvia Iannello Le immagini e le parole dei Malavoglia (Sovera, Roma, 2008), the author selects some passages of the Giovanni Verga' novel I Malavoglia, adds original comments and Acitrezza' photographic images, and devotes a chapter to the origins, remarks and frames taken from the immortal movie La terra trema (1948) directed by Luchino Visconti.
The first son of Giovanni Battista Catalano Verga and Caterina Di Mauro, Verga was born into a prosperous family of Catania in Sicily. He began writing in his teens, producing the largely unpublished historical novel Amore e Patria (Love and Country); then, although nominally studying law at the University of Catania, he used money his father had given him to publish his I Carbonari della Montagna (The Carbonari of the Mountain) in 1861 and 1862. This was followed by Sulle Lagune (In the Lagoons) in 1863.
Meanwhile, Verga had been serving in the Catania National Guard (1860-64), after which he travelled to Florence several times, settling there in 1869.
He moved to Milan in 1872, where he developed his new approach, characterized by the use of dialogue to develop character, which resulted in his most significant works. In 1880 his story collection Vita dei Campi (Life in the Fields), (including Fantasticheria, La Lupa, and Pentolacchia) most of which were about rural Sicily, came out; it included the Cavalleria Rusticana, which was adapted for the theatre and later the libretto of the Mascagni opera. Verga's short story, "Malaria", was one of the first literary depictions of the disease.
He then embarked on a projected series of five novels, but only completed two, I Malavoglia and Mastro-Don Gesualdo (1889), the latter of which was the last major work of his literary career. Both are widely recognized as masterpieces.
In 1894 Verga moved back to the house he was born in. In 1920 he was elected a senator. He died of a cerebral thrombosis in 1922.
The Teatro Verga in Catania is named after him.
In the book by Silvia Iannello Le immagini e le parole dei Malavoglia (Sovera, Roma, 2008), the author selects some passages of the Giovanni Verga' novel I Malavoglia, adds original comments and Acitrezza' photographic images, and devotes a chapter to the origins, remarks and frames taken from the immortal movie La terra trema (1948) directed by Luchino Visconti.
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October 7, 2024
Giovanni Verga è forse il massimo rappresentante del realismo che, logicamente, si riscontra anche in questo romanzo epistolare, sottolineando con crudezza la vicenda di Maria. Si percepiscono i sentimenti della ragazza, sia la voglia di libertà, sia quell'amore crescente (probabilmente non pienamente ricambiato), ma anche la confusione che si genera nel proprio animo: gli obblighi spirituali si scontrano con l'estrema voglia di vivere, di respirare a pieni polmoni l'aria di campagna. E mentre supplica Dio di aiutarla, e si scusa per i propri pensieri peccaminosi, e recita preghiere, Maria in cuor suo non riesce a sopprimere quel vulcano di emozioni che premono insistenti, quasi a sussurrare una tenue speranza che qualcosa possa accadere e che il suo destino possa improvvisamente cambiare.
Le grida di dolore di Maria sono le stesse delle tantissime donne che, almeno fino ai primi decenni del Novecento, sono state costrette dalle proprie famiglie a entrare in convento senza avere la vocazione.
"Storia di una capinera" è certamente una lettura consigliata in quanto si tratta di un classico. Aspettatevi però di uscirne devastati moralmente.
Recensione completa: https://sakomar.blogspot.com/2024/10/...
Le grida di dolore di Maria sono le stesse delle tantissime donne che, almeno fino ai primi decenni del Novecento, sono state costrette dalle proprie famiglie a entrare in convento senza avere la vocazione.
"Storia di una capinera" è certamente una lettura consigliata in quanto si tratta di un classico. Aspettatevi però di uscirne devastati moralmente.
Recensione completa: https://sakomar.blogspot.com/2024/10/...
March 12, 2022
molto tragico e drammatico, in pieno stile di verga
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