The Novel Of Ferrara

Author : Giorgio Bassani
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 1040 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780141939070

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The Novel of Ferrara by Giorgio Bassani Pdf

Bassani's six classic books, collected for the first time in English as the epic masterwork they were intended to be. Set in the northern Italian town of Ferrara before, during, and after the Second World War, The Novel of Ferrara brings together Bassani's six classic books, fully revised as a single volume by the author at the end of his life: Within the Walls, The Gold-Rimmed Spectacles, The Garden of the Finzi-Continis, Behind the Door, The Heron and The Smell of Hay. These interlocking stories present a fully rounded world of unforgettable characters, memorializing not only the Ferrarese people, but the city itself, which assumes a character and a voice deeply inflected by the Jewish community to which the narrator belongs. 'Exquisite . . . from his boyhood Ferrara and the families he knew, Bassani has carved out a corner of Italy that rises above regionalism with fiction that can stand alongside the most lingering written in Europe to day' The New York Times

Author : Giorgio Bassani
Publisher : New York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015010693813

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Five Stories of Ferrara by Giorgio Bassani Pdf

The main theme of Giorgio Bassani's novels and short stories, which have earned him wide acclaim outside Italy, has been the advent of anti-Semitism in the provincial Italian city of Ferrara during World War II. Earlier he had a successful career as an editor with a major publishing house, being credited with helping to bring to public notice The Leopard by Tomasi Lampedusa. Bassani edited a literary magazine and was director of the Italian radio-television network. His first collection of short pieces was A City on the Plain, written under the pseudonym Giacomo Marchi. His volumes of poems were finally collected and published in 1963. The stories and novels that were to make him famous abroad began to appear in the 1950s. They include A Prospect of Ferrara (1960), and The Gold Rimmed Spectacles (1960). A film version of The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (1962) by Vittorio De Sica has become a public television classic.

Author : Giorgio Bassani
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
ISBN : OCLC:1244781284

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The Garden of the Finzi-Continis by Giorgio Bassani Pdf

Author : Sarah Morgan,Yuki Mizusawa
Publisher : Harlequin / SB Creative
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2014-11-27
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9784596648310

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Once A Ferrara Wife... by Sarah Morgan,Yuki Mizusawa Pdf

Author : Giorgio Bassani
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2014-08-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780141938820

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The Smell of Hay by Giorgio Bassani Pdf

A new translation of Giorgio Bassani's haunting collection of short stories that evoke 1930s Ferrara, with an introduction by Ali Smith. Isolated lives and a lost world are evoked in these memorable stories set in the Jewish-Italian community of 1930s Ferrara. A young man's unrequited love; a strange disappearance; a faded hotel; a lonely funfair; the smell of mown hay at the gates of the Jewish Cemetery - these vivid, impressionistic snapshots build a picture of life's brevity and intensity. Part of the sequence including The Gold-Rimmed Spectacles and The Garden of the Finzi-Continis, and featuring people and places from these novels, The Smell of Hay is told with a voice that is by turns intimate, ironic, elegiac and rueful. This new translation contains two pieces, added by Bassani to his earlier collection, which have never appeared in English before. 'Powerful new translations . . . Bassani began as a poet, and McKendrick's redelivery of this taut uncompromising fiction reveals resonance and generosity' Ali Smith 'Giorgio Bassani is one of the great witnesses of this century, and one of its great artists' Guardian Giorgio Bassani (1916-2000) was an Italian poet, novelist and editor. The Smell of Hay is the last in a series of six works collected together as Il romanzo di Ferrara. Other works in the cycle include The Garden of the Finzi-Continis, which received the Viareggio Prize and inspired an Academy Award-winning film adaptation by Vittorio de Sica, The Gold-Rimmed Spectacles, and Within the Walls (originally published as Five Stories of Ferrara), which won the Strega Prize. Jamie McKendrick is a poet and translator. His translations of Bassani's The Garden of the Finzi-Continis and The Gold-Rimmed Spectacles are already available as Penguin Modern Classics, and he is in the process of translating the rest of the Romanzo di Ferrara cycle anew.

Author : Brad Stevens
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Motion picture producers and directors
ISBN : STANFORD:36105119418973

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Abel Ferrara by Brad Stevens Pdf

From the Driller Killer - a victim of the original video nasty' panic - to Bad Lieutenant, Ferrara's films have attracted both controversy for their extreme subject matter and admiration for their fine acting: Harvey Keitel, Christopher Walken, Madonna, Lili Taylor and Willem Dafoe all gave their finest performances under Ferrara's direction. Now Brad Stevens has subjected Ferrara's output to exhaustive analysis and uncovers a tender heart beating beneath the excessive imagery.'

Author : Giorgio Bassani
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780141938875

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Behind the Door by Giorgio Bassani Pdf

A new translation of Bassani's moving novel of childhood friendship and the unexpected loss of innocence The years lived since then have not, in the end, been of any use: I haven't managed to remedy the suffering which has remained there like a hidden wound, secretly bleeding. In the fourth book of the Romanzo di Ferrara cycle, Bassani paints a moving portrait of a 1930s childhood in which even the familiar classroom and playground dramas begin to reflect the sinister forces at work in fascist Italy. This powerful tale of friendship and rivalry in the face of the ever encroaching spectre of adulthood adds yet another intricate thread to Bassani's rich tapestry of his native city, Ferrara. 'Giorgio Bassani is one of the great witnesses of this century, and one of its great artists' Guardian 'Powerful new translations . . . Bassani began as a poet, and McKendrick's redelivery of this taut uncompromising fiction reveals resonance and generosity' Ali Smith

Author : Michele Giuttari
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2009-08-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780748113125

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A Florentine Death by Michele Giuttari Pdf

Chief Superintendent Michele Ferrara knows that the beautiful surface of his adopted city, Florence, hides dark undercurrents. When called in to investigate a series of brutal and apparently random murders, his intuition is confirmed. Distrusted by his superiors and pilloried by the media, Ferrara finds time running out as the questions pile up. Is there a connection between the murders and the threatening letters he has received? Are his old enemies, the Calabrian Mafia, involved? And what part is played by a beautiful young woman facing a heart-rending decision, a priest troubled by a secret from his past, and an American journalist fascinated by the darker side of life? Ferrara confronts the murky underbelly of Florence in an investigation that will put not only his career but also his life on the line. Originally published in Italy as Scarabeo.

Author : Sarah Morgan,Yuuki Mizuswa
Publisher : Harlequin / SB Creative
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-27
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9784596069474

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THE FORBIDDEN FERRARA by Sarah Morgan,Yuuki Mizuswa Pdf

Fia is the chef and owner of a successful restaurant. One day her childhood neighbor Santo pays her a visit. Their families have been feuding for the past three generations. Three years ago, Fia and Santo spent a night together, but when she found out she was pregnant, he never returned her calls, and she ended up raising her son on her own. Why did he show up only now? she wonders. Go home. I never wanted to see you again… And then he discovers her son crying in the other room. “Did you think you could hide my own son from me?”

Author : Silvia Ferrara
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2022-03-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780374601638

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The Greatest Invention by Silvia Ferrara Pdf

In this exhilarating celebration of human ingenuity and perseverance—published all around the world—a trailblazing Italian scholar sifts through our cultural and social behavior in search of the origins of our greatest invention: writing. The L where a tabletop meets the legs, the T between double doors, the D of an armchair’s oval backrest—all around us is an alphabet in things. But how did these shapes make it onto the page, never mind form complex structures such as this sentence? In The Greatest Invention, Silvia Ferrara takes a profound look at how—and how many times—human beings have managed to produce the miracle of written language, traveling back and forth in time and all across the globe to Mesopotamia, Crete, China, Egypt, Central America, Easter Island, and beyond. With Ferrara as our guide, we examine the enigmas of undeciphered scripts, including famous cases like the Phaistos Disk and the Voynich Manuscript; we touch the knotted, colored strings of the Inca quipu; we study the turtle shells and ox scapulae that bear the earliest Chinese inscriptions; we watch in awe as Sequoyah single-handedly invents a script for the Cherokee language; and we venture to the cutting edge of decipherment, in which high-powered laser scanners bring tears to an engineer’s eye. A code-cracking tour around the globe, The Greatest Invention chronicles a previously uncharted journey, one filled with past flashes of brilliance, present-day scientific research, and a faint, fleeting glimpse of writing’s future.

Author : Michele Giuttari
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2009-06-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780748111718

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A Death In Tuscany by Michele Giuttari Pdf

In the picturesque Tuscan hill town of Scandicci, the body of a girl is discovered. Scantily dressed, she is lying by the edge of the woods. The local police investigate the case - but after a week, they still haven't even identified her, let alone got to the bottom of how she died. Frustrated by the lack of progress, Chief Superintendent Michele Ferrara, head of Florence's elite Squadra Mobile, decides to step in. Because toxins were discovered in the girl's body, many assumed that she died of a self-inflicted drugs overdose. But Ferrara quickly realises that the truth is darker than that: he believes that the girl was murdered. And when he delves deeper, there are many aspects to the case that convince Ferrara that the girl's death is part of a sinister conspiracy - a conspiracy that has its roots in the very foundations of Tuscan society... Originally published in Italian as La Loggia Degli Innocenti.

Author : Giorgio Bassani
Publisher : Harvest Books
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Fiction
ISBN : IND:39000000821483

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The Heron by Giorgio Bassani Pdf

"Bassani describes a land beyond the city and surrounding countryside. It is a land that lives also in the water, so the active population is made up of people who work there or go there on purpose. This special land belongs to men who fish with boats and also with barrels to hunt."--Goodreads

Author : Ali Smith
Publisher : Penguin Canada
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2014-09-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780143192770

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How to be Both by Ali Smith Pdf

Passionate, compassionate, vitally inventive, and scrupulously playful, Ali Smith’s novels are like nothing else. How to be both is a novel all about the versatility of art. Borrowing from painting’s fresco technique to make an original literary double-take, it’s a fast-moving, genre-bending conversation among forms, times, truths, and fictions. There’s a Renaissance artist of the 1460s. There’s the child of a child of the 1960s. Two tales of love and injustice twist into a singular yarn where time gets timeless, structure gets playful, knowing gets mysterious, fictional gets real—and all life’s “givens” get a second chance.

Author : Nicole Brenez
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2006-12-20
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780252074110

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Abel Ferrara by Nicole Brenez Pdf

Nicole Brenez argues for Abel Ferrara’s place in a line of grand inventors who have blurred distinctions between industry and avant-garde film, including Orson Welles, Monte Hellman, and Nicholas Ray. Rather than merely reworking genre film, Brenez understands Ferrara’s oeuvre as formulating new archetypes that depict the evil of the modern world. Focusing as much on the human figure as on elements of storytelling, she argues that films such as Bad Lieutenant express this evil through visionary characters struggling against the inadmissible (inadmissible behavior, morality, images, and narratives).

Author : Peter Robb
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2014-08-05
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781466861299

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Midnight In Sicily by Peter Robb Pdf

A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year A New York Public Library Best Book of the Year From the author of M and A Death in Brazil comes Midnight in Sicily. South of mainland Italy lies the island of Sicily, home to an ancient culture that--with its stark landscapes, glorious coastlines, and extraordinary treasure troves of art and archeology--has seduced travelers for centuries. But at the heart of the island's rare beauty is a network of violence and corruption that reaches into every corner of Sicilian life: Cosa Nostra, the Mafia. Peter Robb lived in southern Italy for over fourteen years and recounts its sensuous pleasures, its literature, politics, art, and crimes.