This novel is the third part of the celebrated trilogy Camon called the cycle of the lowliest, which traced one of the most important but least recognized events of modern history: the death of Italy's peasant civilization. Camon's northern Italy was primitive and poor; little more than strong religious beliefs helped to sustain the populace through years of poverty, hunger, and disease. With the arrival of the civilizing aspects of modern life, however, the peasant way of life, and all it stood for, changed forever. Memorial is the final installment in Camon's attempt to capture and...
This novel is the third part of the celebrated trilogy Camon called the cycle of the lowliest, which traced one of the most important but least recogn...
The first of his three classic autobiographical novels, "The Fifth Estate" chronicles the passing in our own time of an ageless civilization, that of the peasant world Camon was born into. The trilogy--which also includes "Life Everlasting" and "Memorial"--has appeared in translation worldwide since its publication in the 1970s.
The first of his three classic autobiographical novels, "The Fifth Estate" chronicles the passing in our own time of an ageless civilization, that of ...
Together with "The Fifth Estate" and "Memorial, Life Everlasting" belongs to a sequence of fictional memoirs which brilliantly evokes peasant society in the Veneto in northeast Italy. It was into that ageless traditional society that Camon himself was born, and it is its disappearance in our own time that this trilogy relates.
Together with "The Fifth Estate" and "Memorial, Life Everlasting" belongs to a sequence of fictional memoirs which brilliantly evokes peasant society ...
