Mastro-don Gesualdo; (Penguin modern classics) - Softcover
English translation by D. H. Lawrence.
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Text: English, Italian (translation)
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Realistic novel of Sicilian life by Giovanni Verga, published in Italian in 1889. Mastro-don can be translated "Sir-Workman," a title that embodies the story's central dilemma. The protagonist, Gesualdo Motta, is a peasant who becomes a wealthy landowner through hard work and judicious business practices, but he cannot rise socially despite his marriage to the noble Bianca Trao. The decadence of the unbending Trao family is repeatedly contrasted with the honesty, strength, vitality, ingenuity, and ambition of Gesualdo. He is unable to understand why he becomes alienated from both the gentry and the peasantry; this lack of insight is the source of his tragedy. -- The Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of Literature
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- Publication date1970
- ISBN 10 0140031685
- ISBN 13 9780140031683
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- Number of pages345
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