Stories of Southern Italy

Stories of Southern Italy - Everyman's Library Pocket Classics

Short stories

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Publisher's Synopsis

Woven through all these tales are the unique histories and mythologies of the regions of Southern Italy, encompassing Sicily, Calabria, Cantania, Basilicata, Apulia and Campania. Theocritus, Virgil and Ovid evoke a Sicily populated by Cyclopes and sea monsters, while in an excerpt from The Smile of the Unknown Mariner Vincenzo Consolo depicts the island in 1860, on the frontline in Italy's war of independence. The South's legendary legacy of brigandage and organized crime enlivens the stories of Leonardo Sciascia, Carlo Levi and Joseph Conrad. Curzio Malaparte and Norman Lewis immortalize the wreckage of Naples and the indomitable spirit of its people during World War II, and Elena Ferrante paints a spectacular portrait of a poor but vibrant Neapolitan neighbourhood in an excerpt from the bestselling My Brilliant Friend. Collectively, these entertaining tales plunge readers into the sometimes harsh and troubled, but always seductive and vital world of Italy's Mezzogiorno

Book information

ISBN: 9781841596334
Publisher: Everyman
Imprint: Everyman
Pub date:
Edition: Short stories
DEWEY: 808.8310832457
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 432
Weight: 452g
Height: 126mm
Width: 191mm
Spine width: 34mm