scrittori histoires encounters contemporary

books:

The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
Giorgio Bassani

Ballantine Books, 1972

The Smell of Hay
Giorgio Bassani

Quartet Books, 1996

The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (Everyman's Library Classics & Contemporary Classics)

10 reviews
Giorgio Bassani

Everyman's Library, 2005

haunting love story
This is a love story, a story about growing up, a story about discovering one's three rich heritages (Italian and Jewish and literary). And it is a story about a boy becoming a writer. There must be thousands such coming-of-age stories; thousands of stories about that first (and naturally unrequited) love; and, since most of the people who write these stories are authors there are even a few ...

The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (Penguin Modern Classics)
Giorgio Bassani

Penguin Books, 2007

This is a haunting, elegiac novel which captures the mood and atmosphere of Italy (and in particular Ferrara) in the last summers of the thirties, focusing on an aristocratic Jewish family moving imperceptibly towards its doom. Vittorio De Sica turned the book into a film in 1970, winning the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1974.

Five Stories of Ferrara
Giorgio Bassani

Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1971

Depicts the Ferrarese Jews and the Catholic community during World War II.

Il Giardino Dei Finzi Contini (Tascabili - Scrittori)
Giorgio Bassani

Einaudi, 2005

The Heron (Quartet Encounters)
Giorgio Bassani

Texas Bookman, 1996

Behind the Door (Quartet Encounters)

3 reviews
Giorgio Bassani

Texas Bookman, 1996

As instrospective as it is autobiographical
Giorgio Bassano died yesterday (15 April, 2000) at 84 in his beloved Bolonia. So I rush to write this review on one of his most famous texts, BEHIND THE DOOR. I think that, together with GARDEN OF THE FINZI-CONTINIS, it is his most finished work. A Jewish himself he fought against Fascism and attacked Mussolini from his Magazine BOTTEGHE OSCURE. He was also a member of the Resistence until his ...