by Giovanni Verga · Newton Compton Editori · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788879839822
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«I Malavoglia» is the verist novel by Giovanni Verga, published by Newton Compton Editori in paperback (241 pages, in Italian).
The novel follows a family of fishermen from Aci Trezza whose boat, the Provvidenza, shipwrecks with a cargo of lupins bought on credit. From that disaster, the narrative addresses poverty, family, and the impact of progress on the traditional life of nineteenth-century Sicily.
Complete edition, part of the Biblioteca economica Newton collection; the work was originally published in 1881.
For readers of classic fiction and Italian realism who want to discover a portrait of rural nineteenth-century Sicily.
Giovanni Carmelo Verga di Fontanabianca was an Italian realist (verista) writer. His novels I Malavoglia (1881) and Mastro-don Gesualdo (1889) are widely recognized as masterpieces. Verga has been called the greatest Italian novelist after Manzoni. D. H. Lawrence translated several of his works into English.
