The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
By Giorgio Bassani
Introduction by Tim Parks
Translated by William Weaver
By Giorgio Bassani
Introduction by Tim Parks
Translated by William Weaver
Part of Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Series
Category: Literary Fiction | Classic Fiction
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$23.00
Jul 19, 2005 | ISBN 9781400044221
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Praise
“Giorgio Bassani is one of the great witnesses of this century, and one of its great artists.” –The Guardian
“Curiously haunting and poetic . . . Like Proust, a novelist to whom he is inevitably compared, Bassani is a specialist in decadence and nostalgia.” –Christian Science Monitor
“Bassani looms large in the Italian literary scene . . . [The Garden of the Finzi-Continis] is an honest book, and tells with a kind of probing tenderness a true story of sensitive and vulnerable youth in a somber decade.” –Saturday Review
“The Garden of the Finzi-Continis is first and foremost a love story and on quite a different level from anything else Bassani wrote . . . Beneath every other theme and concern, and whether or not prompted by the political situation, the question [the novel] quite explicitly ask[s] is:
what does it mean to have lived?” –from the new Introduction by Tim Parks
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