by Giovanni Verga · San Paolo Edizioni · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788821575112
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Written in 1869 and published in 1871, this early novel by Verga has enjoyed and continues to enjoy extraordinary success. Written in epistolary form, it is based on an autobiographical experience. The letters that young Maria—forced by her father into convent life without a vocation—writes to her friend Marianna during a short stay with her family in the countryside, testify to her turmoil as a young novice who rediscovers new horizons outside monastic life, and above all, the existence of love that, opposed by everyone, will grow in her, assuming a paroxysmal tension. Considered at the time a polemical denunciation of the female condition, this novel is a great intimate, sentimental, and human drama.
