Titre : | Don Gesualdo |
Auteurs : | Giovanni Verga, Auteur ; Charlotte Sauer, Traducteur |
Type de document : | texte imprimé |
Editeur : | Augsburg : Weltbild, 1955 |
Collection : | Weltbild-Taschenbuch |
ISBN/ISSN/EAN : | 978-3-8289-7925-3 |
Format : | 478 pages / 19x12 cm |
Langues: | Allemand |
Langues originales: | Italien |
Résumé : |
Mastro-don Gesualdo, realistic novel of Sicilian life by Giovanni Verga, published in Italian in 1889.
Mastro-don can be translated as “Sir-Workman,” a title that embodies the story’s central dilemma. The protagonist, Gesualdo Motta, is a peasant who becomes a wealthy landowner through hard work and judicious business practices, but he cannot rise socially despite his marriage to the noble Bianca Trao. And, although the Trao family is itself impoverished, its members cannot regard Gesualdo as anything but a peasant. The decadence of the unbending Trao family is repeatedly contrasted with the honesty, strength, vitality, ingenuity, and ambition of Gesualdo. His lack of understanding concerning his isolated social position is the source of his tragedy. Giovanni Verga, (born Sept. 2, 1840, Catania, Sicily—died Jan. 27, 1922, Catania), novelist, short-story writer, and playwright, most important of the Italian verismo (Realist) school of novelists (see verismo). His reputation was slow to develop, but modern critics have assessed him as one of the greatest of all Italian novelists. His influence was particularly marked on the post-World War II generation of Italian authors; a landmark film of the Neorealist cinema movement, Luchino Visconti’s Terra trema (1948; The Earth Trembles), was based on Verga’s novel I malavoglia. |
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Code-barres | Cote | Support | Localisation | Section | Disponibilité | L'etagère |
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P ROM 0751 | VER | Livre | A Rousen | Roman | Disponible | R 2.4 A |
BIC-000524 | VER | Livre | A Rousen | Roman | Disponible | R 2.11G |