Name: Marianna Sirca (in Italian)
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Author: Deledda Grazia
ISBN: 9781477670132

Type

Physical Book

Author

Grazia Deledda

Deledda Grazia

Publisher

Createspace

Language

Italian

Pages

202

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.9x15.2x1.2 cm

Weight

0.30 kg.

ISBN13

9781477670132

Synopsis "Marianna Sirca (in Italian)"

Jan Kozma's translation of Marianna Sirca is the near-literal rendering of a novel written by Grazia Deledda (1871-1936), the celebrated Italian author from Sardinia who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1926. Almost all of Deledda's stories treat the lives, loves, tragedies, and triumphs of the author's native land--the remote, isolated, and often forbidding island of Sardinia. This new translation includes an introduction that highlights the salient episodes of Grazia Deledda's life and which situates Marianna Sirca both literarily within the author's opera omnia and as part of the general literary trends of the early European twentieth century. Jan Kozma presents the homonymous protagonist, Marianna Sirca, as one of the great literary precursors of the liberated, independent, modern woman--an ironic twist, given the repressive culture in which Marianna lives. The translator also provides numerous explanatory foot-notes that elucidate particular arcane aspects of Sardinian life in the late nineteenth century.

Deledda Grazia

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Grazia Deledda was an outstanding Italian writer born on September 27, 1871 in Nuoro, on the island of Sardinia, and died on August 15, 1936 in Rome. She is widely recognized for having won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1926, being the second woman to receive this award. Her work is characterized by portraying the life, customs, and moral conflicts of the Sardinian people, especially in rural and traditional environments

From a young age, she showed a great passion for writing, despite not having received extensive formal education. She published her first novel at the age of 17 and continued writing throughout her life, with a style influenced by Italian verismo and the ideals of decadentism. Among her most famous works are Canne al vento, Elias Portolu, and La madre, where she addresses themes such as the struggle between duty and desire, the weight of tradition, and human suffering

Grazia Deledda was a pioneer in giving voice to women and to the peripheral regions of Italy in national literature. Her legacy remains important for the psychological depth of her characters and for her contribution to universal literature.

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