by Giovanni Verga · Tascabili Economici Newton · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788879831536
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«I Malavoglia» is the verist novel by Giovanni Verga, published by Tascabili Economici Newton in paperback (255 pages, in Italian).
The novel follows the Toscano family, nicknamed the Malavoglia, fishermen from Aci Trezza in nineteenth-century Sicily. After the shipwreck of their boat, they must face debts and grief; Verga portrays rural life, honour and the conflict between tradition and progress.
First instalment of Verga's narrative cycle «Il ciclo dei vinti»; complete 1993 edition, part of the «I Classici Superten» collection.
Aimed at literature students and readers interested in nineteenth-century Italian classics and verism.
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.
