by Sebastiano Vassalli · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788806129378
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«La chimera» is the historical novel by Sebastiano Vassalli, published by Einaudi in paperback (308 pages, in Italian).
Set in a village in the Po valley in the 17th century, the novel follows the life of Antonia, a young woman accused of witchcraft in Zardino. Vassalli combines grotesque episodes with desolate ones and portrays an agrarian world marked by superstition and religious authority, with injustice and marginalisation as the backdrop.
The novel was originally published in 1990 and won the Strega Prize and the Napoli Prize. This edition appeared in 1992 in the Einaudi Tascabili collection.
A common work in school reading lists, recommended to readers of Italian historical fiction interested in a rural setting and social criticism.
Sebastiano Vassalli was an Italian author. He wrote the 2007 novel The Italian (L'italiano).
