Wyniki wyszukiwania:

This representative collection of works by the late Elio Vittorini (1908-1966) brings under a single cover three short novels. The Twilight of the Elephant (II Sempione strizza l’occhio al Fréjus, 1946) is a haunting, mythlike tale bearing strong affinities with music and abstract art. It is the story of a poverty-stricken family and its extraordinary grandfather––a veritable “elephant” of a man. One of the recognized classics of modern literature, In Sicily (Conversazione in Sicilia, 1937) recounts a city man’s rediscovery of himself and the basic values of life when he...

Dieser Roman begründete Vittorinis Ruhm. Er ist eine Liebeserklärung an "das Herz der Kindheit, das Herz Siziliens".

Miasta świata powieść niedokończona, opublikowana pośmiertnie przez wydawnictwo Einaudi w 1969 roku. To opowieść o podróży pasterza i jego syna, którzy przeganiają owce przez tereny południowo-wschodniej Sycylii, mijając po drodze sycylijskie miasteczka. Chłopiec zobaczywszy Scicli myśli, że to miasto jest tak piękne jak Jerozolima: To najpiękniejsze miasto jakie kiedykolwiek widzieliśmy, piękniejsze niż Piazza Armerina, niż Caltagirone, niż Ragusa, niż Nicosia czy Enna. Po drodze spotykają inne osoby, uciekinierów, poszukiwaczy przygód, prostytutki. Wszystkich...

The novel begins at a time in the narrator's life when nothing seems to matter; whether he is reading newspaper posters blaring of wartime massacres, lying in bed with his wife or girlfriend, or flipping through the pages of a dictionary it is all the same to him until he embarks on a journey back to Sicily, the home he has not seen in some fifteen years. In traveling through the Sicilian countryside and in variously hilarious and tragic conversations with its people his indomitable mother in particular he reconnects with his roots and rediscovers some basic human values In the introduction...

This novel begins at a time in the unnamed narrator's life when nothing seems to matter. He is filled with a deep sense of ennui and feels disconnected from all that surrounds him. That is until he embarks on a journey to Sicily, the home he has not seen in some 15 years.