by Giovanni Verga · Rusconi Libri · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788818016253
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«I Malavoglia» is the Italian verismo novel by Giovanni Verga, published by Rusconi Libri in paperback (237 pages, in Italian).
The novel follows the Toscano family, the Malavoglia, fishermen from Aci Trezza, in rural nineteenth-century Sicily. After a series of economic setbacks, the family home falters; Verga portrays the lives of the humble, loyalty to the clan, the weight of tradition, and the clash with progress.
«I Malavoglia» is the first novel of Verga's «I vinti» cycle; it was originally published in 1881.
A common reading in Italian literature programmes, intended for those who want to approach verismo and nineteenth-century classics.
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.
