Bücher von Grazia Deledda

A translation of Grazia Deledda's final novel, an autobiographically based portrayal of an Italian woman coming to terms with breast cancer at the cusp of the twentieth century.

Ein poetisches Meisterwerk der italienischen ModerneIn der Kunst, mit wenigen Worten Stimmungen zu zaubern, ist Grazia Deledda bis heute unerreicht. Auf der abgeschiedenen Insel der Granatapfelbäume und der wilden Kaktusfeigen siedelt die Erzählerin ihr archaisch anmutendes Drama um Schuld und Sühne an. Wie Schilf im Wind finden sich die Insel-Menschen vom Schicksal erfasst, geknickt, zu Boden gedrückt und zuweilen wieder aufgerichtet. Was an Deleddas Prosa jedoch am meisten bezaubert, sind die poetischen Natur- und Landschaftsbeschreibungen ihrer Heimat Sardinien: an den Ufern der türkisen Flüsse gelbliche Binsen, von Silberfäden umsponnen, Mandel- und Pfirsichhaine vor stahlblauem Himmel, meergrünes Schilf und Palmengestrüpp, inmitten hügeliger Flure da und dort weiße Dörfer mit Glockentürmen, zerfallenes Gartengemäuer, abbröckelnde Hauswände, Überbleibsel von Höfen, dazwischen heilgebliebene Katen, und hoch darüber thronend eine schwarze Schlossruine ...Für die Jubiläumsausgabe anlässlich des 150. Geburtstags Deleddas am 27.9.2021 wird die Manesse-Übersetzung aus dem Jahre 1954 gründlich überarbeitet und kommentiert.

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Questo è il romanzo più noto dell'autrice (Premio Nobel per la letteratura nel 1926).Le vicende si svolgono nella Sardegna d'inizio XX secolo; povertà, onore e orgoglio, superstizione, emergono nelle vicende della famiglia Pintor: quattro figlie e un padre "all'antica".Lia, la figlia più giovane, ribelle, fugge "in continente".Il padre ne morirà.La figlia incontrerà un uomo da cui avrà un figlio che in seguito alla morte della madre andrà in Sardegna.La capacità descrittiva dell'autrice s'imprime nel lettore: i paesaggi, la casa dei protagonisti, le feste ma anche i viaggi introspettivi del servo di casa Pintor.

The rugged landscape of Baronia on Sardinia sets the scene for this novel of crime, guilt and retribution. This novel presents the story of the Pintor sisters - from a family of noble landowners now in decline - their nephew Giacinto, and their servant Efix, who is trying to make up for a mysterious sin committed many years before. Around, below, and inside them the raging Mediterranean storms, the jagged mountains, the murmuring forests, and the gushing springs form a Greek chorus of witness to the tragic drama of this unforgiving land.Deledda tells her story with her characteristic love of the natural landscape and fascination with the folk culture of the island, with details about the famous religious festivals held in mountain encampments and the lore of the "dark beings who populate the Sardinian night, the fairies who live in rocks and caves, and the sprites with seven red caps who bother sleep."Introduction by the Sardinian ethnographer, Dolores Turchi.