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The Challenge of the Modern
Grazia Deledda has been variously categorised as Romantic, Realist, Symbolist or Decadent. This book aims to show the writer and her work in a fresh light, emphasising the extraordinary nature of her achievement given her unpromising beginnings. It offers insight into her work from the perspectives of modernism, feminism and post-colonialism.
Grazia Deledda
This is a timely and extensive biography of a writer who, in the early twentieth century, achieved such status in the literary world that publishers in Italy vied for her novels, and editors felt honoured to publish her short stories and 'sketches'. Now, almost seventy years after her death, her novels continue to be reprinted and translated, and critical appreciation of her work continues to grow. Her works still live and have the power to move her readers.
A Self-made Woman
A biography of a Sardinian woman who determinedly rose above the restrictions of her environment to win the Nobel Prize for literature in 1926.
Ashes
The author interweaves into the novel leitmotifs of Sardinian folklore, health issues, banditry, illegitimacy, prostitution, and the social mores of the late nineteenth century with all the attendant public opprobrium.".
Ivy
"A novel of love and redemption by the Nobel-laureate Grazia Deledda. Set in the mountains of the Italian island of Sardinia, Deledda chronicles the decline of a once-prominent family. An adopted daughter tries to save them by murdering a wealthy relative only adding to their woes"--
Grazia Deledda's Dance of Modernity (Toronto Italian Studies)
Grazia Deledda's Dance of Modernity is a highly original and innovative interpretation of Deledda's narrative in philosophical perspective, which also includes the study of textual variations and considers cultural history in Italy during the early twentieth century.
The Woman & the Priest
This fiction by Grazia Deledda presents an intense and absorbing story of Paulo, a young priest who has the confidence of everyone in his country, a place rich in traditions and united by solid ethical law. People consider him an example of faith and dedication. Paulo falls in love with Agnes, a woman living alone in the large family estate. Paulo's mother notices his feelings and is committed to protecting him from this forbidden love by trying to bring him back on the correct path and reminding him of his responsibilities as a priest. The rest of the novel circles the interesting events that follow. This is a translation of the Italian novel La Madre, a story of religion and corruption, weakness and joy, anxieties and desires that are out of control. The book is filled with rich characterizations, incredible descriptions, and a strong contrast between Catholic customs and village superstition. It is an amazingly striking novel that illustrates this tiny Italian island and its villagers in lifelike colors.
After the Divorce
Reproduction of the original: After the Divorce by Grazia Deledda
Grazia Deledda's Eternal Adolescents
Throughout Deledda's novels, truncated maturity functions as a psychological undertow sucking down its sufferers and their loved ones to the depths of fictive drama."--BOOK JACKET.
