Italy has a long history of short story writing -going back to
Boccaccio (d. 1375) - and most of Italy's major writers produced
collections of novelle. One of the greatest exponents is Giovanni
Verga. The themes of his major novels are to be found in his short
stories. Verga embraced verismo, the Italian form of French
naturalism, where authorial comment and description is at a
minimum. He creates an atmosphere and emotions in his writing which
transcend the world of his characters, mainly Sicilian fishermen
and peasants, and which give it a lyrical almost epic character.
Although Verga writes about a small enclosed world, his work has
universal appeal, touching the heart without lecturing or
sentimentalising. This volume offers a wider and more varied
selection of Verga's prose than has been published in English
before and has been taken from four collections published between
1876 and 1887.
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