Published in 1880, one year before Verga's influential novel The
Malavoglias, Life in the Country first marked his stylistic shift
towards the verismo school of Italian realism. The collection's
centrepiece, `Rustic Honour' (`Cavalleria rusticana') - which was
famously adapted into a play by the author before becoming an opera
by Mascagni - tells the tale of Turiddu, a poor young man who
returns from military service and finds himself embroiled in
adultery and a feud with a rival. Also including the well-known
stories `She-Wolf' and `Foxfur', A Life in the Country captures, in
an objective, non-judgemental prose, the difficult conditions and
personal struggles of the peasant class in his native Sicily at the
turn of the twentieth century.
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