Book: The House By The Medlar Tree "Giovanni Verga is one of the masters of European literature, and his novel "The House by the Medlar Tree" is a great work. I am very happy to see it reprinted and I hope that many people will read it."--Iriving Howe
Giovanni Verga (1840-1922) is the most important of the Italian Realist School of novelists. This new edition of "The House by the Medlar Tree (I Malavoglia)" makes the complete English version of his masterpiece available once more. The story of the Malavoglia, a family of poor Sicilian fisherman, is Verga's moving rendering of the theme of mankind's struggle for self-betterment, the dignity of the struggle in the face of poverty and hardship, and the tragedy that the struggle inevitably incurs.
D. H. Lawrence described Vega's work as "Homeric." Rayond Rosenthal's translation of "I Malavoglia" is the only complete version of this novel in English and conveys Vega's lyrical realism and the flavor of Sicialian village life superbly.
The book is introduced by Giovanni Ceccheti, whose own translations of Verga, "Mastro-don Gesualdo" and "The She-Wolf and Other Stories," are also available from California.
Details of Book: The House By The Medlar Tree Book: The House By The Medlar Tree
Author: Giovanni Verga, Raymond Rosenthal
ISBN: 0520048504
ISBN-13: 9780520048508
, 978-0520048508
Binding: Paperback
Publishing Date: Mar 1984
Publisher: University Of California Press
Number of Pages: 275
Language: English