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Antonio Fogazzaro (1842-1911) was an Italian novelist. THE LITTLE WORLD OF THE PAST is set during a time of massive upheaval and altercation; many Italians are trying to throw off the yoke of occupying Austria. Italy is about to become unified and independent; the 'Risorgimento' is coming. On the surface the story of the novel is somewhat conventional. A pair of young lovers marries against the wishes of a rich grandmother. The young couple, Franco and Luisa, stand for traditional religious observance in Franco's case and enlightened agnosticism in Luisa's. Their opposing views are dramatized by divergent manners of raising their daughter Maria. These young lovers suffer great trials connected to their child, and to their contrary conceptions of faith, to the point that Luisa experiences temporary madness. Like other of the world's great novels, the surface plot serves as a backdrop that allows the author to dramatize profound, perennial political and religious ideas which push the limits of the romantic and reveal truths. In a significant sense, this novel contains notes familiar to Hemingway's A FAREWELL TO ARMS. Even if PICCOLO MONDO ANTICO ultimately documents a summons to rather than a farewell to arms, each asks us to gaze anew at the divisive and redemptive forces only children can bring into the world. Even in translation, the narrative is rich and flowing, and hardly a paragraph passes without a captivating evocation of both external scenes and the state of the characters' very beings. Upon its release, this work was highly acclaimed, even by critics unsympathetic to his religious and political positions. In 1941, Italian filmmaker Mario Soldati adapted the novel, and his rendering became one of the first giants of Italian cinema. Wiseblood Books is a publishing line particularly favorable toward works of fiction, poetry, and philosophy that render truths with what Flannery O'Connor called an unyielding "realism of distances." Such works find redemption in uncanny places and people; wrestle us from the tyranny of boredom; mock the pretensions of respectability; engage the hidden mysteries of the human heart, be they sources of either violence or courage; articulate faith and doubt in their incarnate complexity; dare an unflinching gaze at human beings as "political animals"; and suffer through this world's trials without forfeiting hope.Through WISEBLOOD CLASSICS we hope to bring hard-to-find great books back into being, and conserve classic works of literature in book form. Forthcoming titles include a lesser-read novel by Henryk Sienkiewicz. Visit us at www.wisebloodbooks.comWe are wide-eyed for new epiphanies of beauty.… (más)
Splendido il diverbio tra Luisa e Franco che impersonano le contrastanti opinioni dell'autore che ha lottato molto con se stesso a proposito di religione. Una storia triste ma con spazio per la speranza e l'invito a rialzarsi anche dopo una disgrazia. Ti sembra di aver realmente visto i personaggi e sentito il clima, così cupo, come la storia. Non mi è piaciuto il dialetto...Proprio non lo sopporto... La marchesa è proprio una figura diabolica ma nel comportamento di Franco vedo quello di molte persone reali e fin troppo leali... Mi ritrovo molto nei pensieri di Luisa.
I suppose I should be reviewing this in Italian, but . . . you know how it goes. Anyway, I have admired this book ever since I was assigned to read it in university decades ago. It wears well on the heart and the mind, so much so that I havebeen presumptuous enough to incorporate aspects of it in my own writing -- with love, of-course, not opportunism. ( )
ullo sfondo dell’Italia risorgimentale, tra la prima e la seconda guerra di indipendenza, si svolge il dissidio amoroso e ideale tra Franco Maironi, un giovane di idee liberali, e Luisa Rigey, una ragazza di modeste condizioni economiche. ( )
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On the lake a cold breva was blowing, striving to drive away the grey clouds which clung heavily about the dark mountain-tops. (1906 - Hodder and Stoughton English translation)
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In Luisa's womb there lay a vital germ which was preparing to fight the battles of a new era, preparing to taste other joys, other griefs than those which the man of the old world was leaving thus peacefully, blessed unconsciously, at the last moment, by that strange priest of Isola Bella, who had, perhaps, never uttered the holy words to one more worthy. (1906 - Hodder and Stoughton English translation).
Antonio Fogazzaro (1842-1911) was an Italian novelist. THE LITTLE WORLD OF THE PAST is set during a time of massive upheaval and altercation; many Italians are trying to throw off the yoke of occupying Austria. Italy is about to become unified and independent; the 'Risorgimento' is coming. On the surface the story of the novel is somewhat conventional. A pair of young lovers marries against the wishes of a rich grandmother. The young couple, Franco and Luisa, stand for traditional religious observance in Franco's case and enlightened agnosticism in Luisa's. Their opposing views are dramatized by divergent manners of raising their daughter Maria. These young lovers suffer great trials connected to their child, and to their contrary conceptions of faith, to the point that Luisa experiences temporary madness. Like other of the world's great novels, the surface plot serves as a backdrop that allows the author to dramatize profound, perennial political and religious ideas which push the limits of the romantic and reveal truths. In a significant sense, this novel contains notes familiar to Hemingway's A FAREWELL TO ARMS. Even if PICCOLO MONDO ANTICO ultimately documents a summons to rather than a farewell to arms, each asks us to gaze anew at the divisive and redemptive forces only children can bring into the world. Even in translation, the narrative is rich and flowing, and hardly a paragraph passes without a captivating evocation of both external scenes and the state of the characters' very beings. Upon its release, this work was highly acclaimed, even by critics unsympathetic to his religious and political positions. In 1941, Italian filmmaker Mario Soldati adapted the novel, and his rendering became one of the first giants of Italian cinema. Wiseblood Books is a publishing line particularly favorable toward works of fiction, poetry, and philosophy that render truths with what Flannery O'Connor called an unyielding "realism of distances." Such works find redemption in uncanny places and people; wrestle us from the tyranny of boredom; mock the pretensions of respectability; engage the hidden mysteries of the human heart, be they sources of either violence or courage; articulate faith and doubt in their incarnate complexity; dare an unflinching gaze at human beings as "political animals"; and suffer through this world's trials without forfeiting hope.Through WISEBLOOD CLASSICS we hope to bring hard-to-find great books back into being, and conserve classic works of literature in book form. Forthcoming titles include a lesser-read novel by Henryk Sienkiewicz. Visit us at www.wisebloodbooks.comWe are wide-eyed for new epiphanies of beauty.
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