Metello
10 best books like Metello (Vasco Pratolini): Zeno's Conscience, The Late Mattia Pascal, The Tartar Steppe, Sostiene Pereira, The Garden of the Finzi-Continis, Christ Stopped at Eboli: The Story of a Year, The Time of Indifference, The Moon and the Bonfire, I Malavoglia, L'isola di Arturo
| Author | Italo Svevo |
| ISBN | 0375727760 |
Long hailed as a seminal work of modernism in the tradition of Joyce and Kafka, and now available in a supple new English translation, Italo Svevo’s charming and splendidly idiosyncratic novel conducts readers deep into one hilariously hyperactive and endlessly self-deluding mind. The mind in...
| Author | Luigi Pirandello |
| ISBN | 1590171152 |
Mattia Pascal endures a life of drudgery in a provincial town. Then, providentially, he discovers that he has been declared dead. Realizing he has a chance to start over, to do it right this time, he moves to a new city, adopts a new name, and a new course of life—only to find that this new existence is as...
| Author | Dino Buzzati |
| ISBN | 1567923046 |
Often likened to Kafka's The Castle, The Tartar Steppe is both a scathing critique of military life and a meditation on the human thirst for glory. It tells of young Giovanni Drogo, who is posted to a distant fort overlooking the vast Tartar steppe. Although not intending to stay, Giovanni suddenly finds...
| Author | Antonio Tabucchi |
| ISBN | 8433966324 |
Lisboa, 1938. En una Europa recorrida por el fantasma de los totalitarismos, Pereira, un periodista dedicado durante toda su vida a la sección de sucesos, recibe el encargo de dirigir la página cultural de un mediocre periódico. Pereira tiene un sentido un tanto fúnebre de la cultura y prefiere...
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
| Author | Giorgio Bassani |
| ISBN | 1400044227 |
Giorgio Bassani's acclaimed novel of unrequited love and the plight of the Italian Jews on the brink of World War II has become a classic of modern Italian literature.
Made into an Academy Award winning film in 1970, "The Garden of the Finzi Continis "is a richly evocative and nostalgic depiction...
Christ Stopped at Eboli: The Story of a Year
| Author | Carlo Levi |
| ISBN | 0374530092 |
It was to Lucania, a desolate land in southern Italy, that Carlo Levi—a doctor, painter, philosopher, and man of letters—was confined as a political prisoner because of his opposition to Italy's Fascist government at the start of the Ethiopian war in 1935. While there, Levi reflected on the harsh...
| Author | Alberto Moravia |
| ISBN | 1586420054 |
In 1929, the fifth year of the Fascist era and the twenty-first year of Alberto Moravia's life, the Italian literary world was stunned by the appearance of his first novel, The Time of Indifference. It is a deceptively simple story – five characters, the events of a few days, the intrigues of families...
| Author | Cesare Pavese |
| ISBN | 0720611199 |
Anguila, the narrator, is a successful businessman lured home from California to the Piedmontese village where he was fostered by peasants. After 20 years, so much has changed. Slowly, with the power of memory, he is able to piece together the past, and relate it to what he finds left in the present. He...
| Author | Giovanni Verga |
| ISBN | 8811582962 |
Nei Malavoglia (1881) Verga si immerge nella realtà locale di un paese siciliano, Aci Trezza, e racconta la semplice e rissosa quotidianità in cui vivono i Toscano, detti appunto i Malavoglia. Avvertendo come poco espressive le realtà borghesi, Verga cerca di rompere l'impianto romanzesco classico,...
| Author | Elsa Morante |
| ISBN | 8806409077 |
Il romanzo è un'esplorazione attenta della prima realtà verso le sorgenti non inquinate della vita. L'isola nativa rappresenta una felice reclusione originaria e, insieme, la tentazione delle terre ignote. L'isola, dunque, è il punto di una scelta e a tale scelta finale, attraverso le varie...
| Author | Alberto Moravia |
| ISBN | 2080684426 |
Agostino, un adolescent de treize ans, passe de merveilleuses vacances sur une plage avec sa mère à qui il voue une passion aussi intense qu'innocente. La rencontre de celle-ci et d'un jeune homme auquel elle est loin d'être insensible met un terme brutal à ce parfait bonheur: Agostino découvre...
| Author | Elio Vittorini |
| ISBN | 8804495863 |
"Questo forse era il punto. Che si potesse resistere come se si dovesse resistere sempre, e non dovesse esservi mai altro che resistere. Sempre che uomini potessero perdersi, e sempre vederne perdersi, sempre non poter salvare, non potere aiutare, non potere che lottare o volersi perdere. E perché...
| Author | Leonardo Sciascia |
| ISBN | 8845917584 |
Se dovessimo indicare una forma romanzesca capace di rivelare come si compone e come si manifesta quell’impasto vischioso del potere che la politica italiana ha avuto per lunghi anni il funesto privilegio di produrre, basterebbe rimandare alle asciutte pagine di Todo modo, alla scansione crudele...
