Life in the country

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Sinopse

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’, 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.

Participantes

Autor: Giovanni Verga

Autor

GIOVANNI VERGA

Giovanni Verga começou com romances históricos. Depois, explorou a temática amorosa. Fez parte do Verismo, uma vertente do realismo. Considerado seu principal autor, estabeleceu as linhas mestras: análise objetiva, com base naturalista para representação.