TheSmellofHay
出版时间:
2014-08
ISBN:
9780141192123
定价:
116.40
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A new translation of Giorgio Bassani\'s haunting collection of short stories that evoke 1930s Ferrara£¬ with an introduction by Ali Smith.Isolated lives and a lost world are evoked in these memorable stories set in the Jewish-Italian community of 1930s Ferrara. A young man\'s unrequited love; a strange disappearance; a faded hotel; a lonely funfair; the smell of mown hay at the gates of the Jewish Cemetery - these vivid£¬ impressionistic snapshots build a picture of life\'s brevity and intensity. Part of the sequence including The Gold-Rimmed Spectacles and The Garden of the Finzi-Continis£¬ and featuring people and places from these novels£¬ The Smell of Hay is told with a voice that is by turns intimate£¬ ironic£¬ elegiac and rueful. This new translation contains two pieces£¬ added by Bassani to his earlier collection£¬ which have never appeared in English before.\'Powerful new translations . . . Bassani began as a poet£¬ and McKendrick\'s redelivery of this taut uncompromising fiction reveals resonance and generosity\' Ali Smith\'Giorgio Bassani is one of the great witnesses of this century£¬ and one of its great artists\' GuardianGiorgio Bassani (1916-2000) was an Italian poet£¬ novelist and editor. The Smell of Hay is the last in a series of six works collected together as Il romanzo di Ferrara. Other works in the cycle include The Garden of the Finzi-Continis£¬ which received the Viareggio Prize and inspired an Academy Award-winning film adaptation by Vittorio de Sica£¬ The Gold-Rimmed Spectacles£¬ and Within the Walls (originally published as Five Stories of Ferrara)£¬ which won the Strega Prize. Jamie McKendrick is a poet and translator. His translations of Bassani\'s The Garden of the Finzi-Continis and The Gold-Rimmed Spectacles are already available as Penguin Modern Classics£¬ and he is in the process of translating the rest of the Romanzo di Ferrara cycle anew.
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A new translation of Giorgio Bassani\'s haunting collection of short stories that evoke 1930s Ferrara£¬ with an introduction by Ali Smith.Isolated lives and a lost world are evoked in these memorable stories set in the Jewish-Italian community of 1930s Ferrara. A young man\'s unrequited love; a strange disappearance; a faded hotel; a lonely funfair; the smell of mown hay at the gates of the Jewish Cemetery - these vivid£¬ impressionistic snapshots build a picture of life\'s brevity and intensity. Part of the sequence including The Gold-Rimmed Spectacles and The Garden of the Finzi-Continis£¬ and featuring people and places from these novels£¬ The Smell of Hay is told with a voice that is by turns intimate£¬ ironic£¬ elegiac and rueful. This new translation contains two pieces£¬ added by Bassani to his earlier collection£¬ which have never appeared in English before.\'Powerful new translations . . . Bassani began as a poet£¬ and McKendrick\'s redelivery of this taut uncompromising fiction reveals resonance and generosity\' Ali Smith\'Giorgio Bassani is one of the great witnesses of this century£¬ and one of its great artists\' GuardianGiorgio Bassani (1916-2000) was an Italian poet£¬ novelist and editor. The Smell of Hay is the last in a series of six works collected together as Il romanzo di Ferrara. Other works in the cycle include The Garden of the Finzi-Continis£¬ which received the Viareggio Prize and inspired an Academy Award-winning film adaptation by Vittorio de Sica£¬ The Gold-Rimmed Spectacles£¬ and Within the Walls (originally published as Five Stories of Ferrara)£¬ which won the Strega Prize. Jamie McKendrick is a poet and translator. His translations of Bassani\'s The Garden of the Finzi-Continis and The Gold-Rimmed Spectacles are already available as Penguin Modern Classics£¬ and he is in the process of translating the rest of the Romanzo di Ferrara cycle anew.
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