|
Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction
|
Buy Now
Graziella - A Novel (Hardcover)
Loot Price: R1,449
Discovery Miles 14 490
You Save: R218
(13%)
|
|
|
Graziella - A Novel (Hardcover)
Expected to ship within 12 - 17 working days
|
In its first modern translation, a novel-cum-memoir of a
Frenchman's erotic awakening in Italy by a preeminent writer of the
Romantic period In 1812 Alphonse de Lamartine, a young man of
means, traveled through southern Italy, where, during a sojourn in
Naples, he fell in love with a young woman who worked in a cigar
factory-and whose death after he returned to France would haunt him
throughout his writing life. Graziella, Lamartine called this lost
girl in his poetry and memoirs-and also in Graziella, a novel that
closely follows the story of his own romance. "When I was
eighteen," the narrator begins, as if penning his memoir, "my
family entrusted me to the care of a relative whose business
affairs called her to Tuscany." The tale that unfolds, of the young
man's amorous experiences amid the natural grandeur and subtle
splendors of the Italian countryside, is one of the finest works of
fiction in the French Romantic tradition, a bildungsroman that is
also a melancholy portrait of the artist as a young man discovering
the muse who would both inspire and elude him. Remarkable for its
contemplative prose, its dreamy passions and seductive drawing of
the Italian landscape, and its place in the Romantic canon,
Graziella is a timeless portrait of love, chronicling the remorse
and the misguided ideals of youth that find their expression, if
not their amends, in art.
General
Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate?
Let us know about it.
Does this product have an incorrect or missing image?
Send us a new image.
Is this product missing categories?
Add more categories.
Review This Product
No reviews yet - be the first to create one!
|
You might also like..
|
Email address subscribed successfully.
A activation email has been sent to you.
Please click the link in that email to activate your subscription.
Welcome to Loot.co.za!
Sign in / Register |Wishlists & Gift Vouchers |Help | Advanced search
