The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (Harvest/HBJ Book) - Softcover

Bassani, Giorgio

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0156345706 ISBN 13: 9780156345705

Publisher: Harcourt Brace International, 1977

Synopsis

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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Review:

"Giorgio Bassani is one of the great witnesses of this century, and one of its great artists." -"The Guardian" "Curiously haunting and poetic . . . Like Proust, a novelist to whom he is inevitably compared, Bassani is a specialist in decadence and nostalgia." -"Christian Science Monitor" "Bassani looms large in the Italian literary scene . . . ["The Garden of the Finzi-Continis"] is an honest book, and tells with a kind of probing tenderness a true story of sensitive and vulnerable youth in a somber decade." -"Saturday Review" ""The Garden of the Finzi-Continis" is first and foremost a love story and on quite a different level from anything else Bassani wrote . . . Beneath every other theme and concern, and whether or not prompted by the political situation, the question [the novel] quite explicitly ask[s] is: what does it mean to have lived?" -from the new Introduction by Tim Parks

About the Author:

Giorgio Bassani was born in 1916. From 1938 onwards he became involved in various anti-fascist activities for which he was imprisoned in 1943. His works include The Gold-Rimmed Spectacles, and Five Stories of Ferrara (Within the Walls), which won the Strega Prize. The Garden of the Finzi-Continis was awarded the Viareggio Prize in 1962 and was made into a feature film.

William Weaver was an award-winning poet and translator. He died in 2013.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harcourt Brace International
• Publication date: 1977
• ISBN 10: 0156345706
• ISBN 13: 9780156345705
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 200