by William Saroyan · Marcos y Marcos · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788871685458
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«La commedia umana» is the novel by William Saroyan, published by Marcos y Marcos in paperback (254 pages, in Italian).
Homer Macauley, a fourteen-year-old teenager, works as a telegraph messenger in Ithaca during the Second World War. After the death of his father and the departure of his older brother, he delivers telegrams of death and hope while discovering the adult world. The novel portrays the America of the forties and its immigrant community.
The novel was originally published in 1943 as The Human Comedy; this Italian edition appeared in 2010 and features a translation by Claudia Maria Tarolo and Marco Zapparoli.
Ideal for readers of coming-of-age novels and classics of American fiction.
William Saroyan was an American novelist, playwright, and short story writer of Armenian descent. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1940, and in 1943 won the Academy Award for Best Story for the film The Human Comedy. When the studio rejected his original 240-page treatment, he turned it into a novel, The Human Comedy.
