The Novel of Ferrara

The Novel of Ferrara

Author: Giorgio Bassani

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2018-10-16

Total Pages: 597

ISBN-13: 0393634299

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Giorgio Bassani’s six classic books, collected for the first time in English as the epic masterwork they were intended to be. Among the masters of twentieth-century literature, Giorgio Bassani and his northern Italian hometown of Ferrara “are as inseparable as James Joyce and Dublin or Italo Svevo and Trieste” (from the Introduction). The Novel of Ferrara brings together Bassani’s six classics, fully revised by the author at the end of his life. Set before, during, and after the Second World War, these interlocking stories present nuanced and unforgettable characters: the respected doctor whose homosexuality is exposed by an exploitative youth; the survivor of the Nazi death camps; the Jewish landowner, returned from exile, to find himself utterly displaced; the schoolteacher whose Communist idealism challenges a postwar generation. Suffused with new life by acclaimed translator and poet Jamie McKendrick, The Novel of Ferrara memorializes a city deeply informed by the Jewish community to which the narrator belongs. This seminal work seals Bassani’s indomitable reputation.


The Struggle in Ferrara

The Struggle in Ferrara

Author: William Gilbert

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-05-15

Total Pages: 156

ISBN-13: 9780259881933

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Excerpt from The Struggle in Ferrara: A Story of the Reformation in Italy He now hesitated no longer. Leaping from the bank, he approached the light, though with some difficulty, his steps being impeded by the brushwood, and his feet clogged by the swampy nature of the soil. Still he pushed onward, and at last came close to the light, which he found to proceed from four torches tied together, their shafts stuck into the ground. At first he was greatly puzzled how to act, as he saw no one near, nor could he divine for what purpose the torches had been placed there; but at length he perceived a man some ten or twelve yards from the light, seated on a stone, his elbows on his knees, and his face buried in his hands. The Friar again drew his cowl over his head, and, without hesitation, walked up to the man, and said softly to him. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.


Abel Ferrara

Abel Ferrara

Author: Nicole Brenez

Publisher: University of Illinois Press

Published: 2006-12-20

Total Pages: 230

ISBN-13: 0252074114

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Nicole Brenez argues for Abel Ferrara’s place in a line of grand inventors who have blurred distinctions between industry and avant-garde film, including Orson Welles, Monte Hellman, and Nicholas Ray. Rather than merely reworking genre film, Brenez understands Ferrara’s oeuvre as formulating new archetypes that depict the evil of the modern world. Focusing as much on the human figure as on elements of storytelling, she argues that films such as Bad Lieutenant express this evil through visionary characters struggling against the inadmissible (inadmissible behavior, morality, images, and narratives).


The Political Development of Modern Thailand

The Political Development of Modern Thailand

Author: Federico Ferrara

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2015-03-26

Total Pages: 345

ISBN-13: 1107061814

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This book traces the roots of Thailand's political development from 1932 to the present, accounting for the intervening period's political turmoil.