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Into the insular town of 1930s Ferrara, a new doctor arrives.
Fadigati is hopeful and modern, and more than anything wants to fit
into his new home. But his fresh, appealing appearance soon
crumbles when the townsfolk discover his homosexuality, and the
young man he pays to be his lover humiliates him publicly. As
anti-Semitism spreads across Italy, the Jewish narrator of the tale
begins to feel pity for the ostracized doctor, as the fickle nature
of a community changing under political forces becomes clear. The
Gold-Rimmed Spectacles is a gripping and tragic study of how lives
can be destroyed by those we consider our neighbours.
This is a haunting, elegiac novel which captures the mood and
atmosphere of Italy (and in particular Ferrara) in the last summers
of the thirties, focusing on an aristocratic Jewish family moving
imperceptibly towards its doom. Vittorio De Sica turned the book
into a film in 1970, winning the Academy Award for Best Foreign
Language Film in 1974.
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The Heron (Paperback)
Giorgio Bassani; Translated by Jamie McKendrick
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'Exquisite. . . a classic tour de force' The New York Times 'It
struggled to keep itself aloft, to gain height. But then it
suddenly gave up, and dropped as though it were breaking into many
pieces' Early on a cold Sunday morning, forty-five-year-old Edgardo
Limentani gets up to join a shooting party in the countryside
surrounding the town of Ferrara. As the day passes, he contemplates
his past, his disappointments and how he has got here. Like the
birds he shoots, he realizes, he is trapped, broken, waiting alone
for the final coup de grace. Then he sees a way out. The fifth book
in Bassani's Novel of Ferrara sequence, and his final novel, The
Heron is a taut, poignant portrait of a middle-aged man's reckoning
with his life.
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Behind the Door (Paperback)
Giorgio Bassani; Translated by Jamie McKendrick
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'It was useless to think I'd ever be able to throw open the door
behind which I was yet again hiding ... Not now. Not ever.' School
is a place of unspoken hierarchies and rivalries for a young
teenage boy growing up in the provincial town of Ferrara. But as
the everyday classroom and playground dramas are played out, they
begin to reflect the disturbing undertones of 1930s Italy, and the
narrator realizes that being Jewish means he will always be
excluded. The fourth book in Bassani's Romanzo di Ferrara cycle,
Behind the Door is a luminous portrayal of childhood friendship and
the loss of innocence. A new translation by Jamie McKendrick
'Giorgio Bassani is one of the great witnesses of this century, and
one of its great artists' Guardian 'Powerful new translations . . .
Bassani began as a poet, and McKendrick's redelivery of this taut
uncompromising fiction reveals resonance and generosity' Ali Smith
The story of a wealthy, insular Jewish family in Fascist Italy just
before the outbreak of World War II. The source of an acclaimed
feature film directed by Vittorio De Sica. Translated by William
Weaver.A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book
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The Smell of Hay (Paperback)
Giorgio Bassani; Translated by Jamie McKendrick
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A new translation of Giorgio Bassani's haunting collection of short
stories that evoke 1930s Ferrara, with an introduction by Ali
Smith. Isolated lives and a lost world are evoked in these
memorable stories set in the Jewish-Italian community of 1930s
Ferrara. A young man's unrequited love; a strange disappearance; a
faded hotel; a lonely funfair; the smell of mown hay at the gates
of the Jewish Cemetery - these vivid, impressionistic snapshots
build a picture of life's brevity and intensity. Part of the
sequence including The Gold-Rimmed Spectacles and The Garden of the
Finzi-Continis, and featuring people and places from these novels,
The Smell of Hay is told with a voice that is by turns intimate,
ironic, elegiac and rueful. This new translation contains two
pieces, added by Bassani to his earlier collection, which have
never appeared in English before. 'Powerful new translations . . .
Bassani began as a poet, and McKendrick's redelivery of this taut
uncompromising fiction reveals resonance and generosity' Ali Smith
'Giorgio Bassani is one of the great witnesses of this century, and
one of its great artists' Guardian Giorgio Bassani (1916-2000) was
an Italian poet, novelist and editor. The Smell of Hay is the last
in a series of six works collected together as Il romanzo di
Ferrara. Other works in the cycle include The Garden of the
Finzi-Continis, which received the Viareggio Prize and inspired an
Academy Award-winning film adaptation by Vittorio de Sica, The
Gold-Rimmed Spectacles, and Within the Walls (originally published
as Five Stories of Ferrara), which won the Strega Prize. Jamie
McKendrick is a poet and translator. His translations of Bassani's
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis and The Gold-Rimmed Spectacles are
already available as Penguin Modern Classics, and he is in the
process of translating the rest of the Romanzo di Ferrara cycle
anew.
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