Ernesto - Softcover

Saba, Umberto

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1786690683 ISBN 13: 9781786690685

Publisher: Apollo, 2017

Synopsis

Ernesto is sixteen years old and ready for life to begin. His curiosity leads him into an affair with an older man - the first step on his journey to adulthood. Full of tenderness, humour and warmth, Ernesto is a beautifully rendered coming-of-age story. Written in 1953, but not published until 1975, this is the great Italian poet's most personal and confessional novel, presented here for the first time in unexpurgated form.

About this title

About the Author:

Umberto Saba (1909-1957) was an Italian novelist and poet. Raised by his Jewish mother in the ghetto of Trieste, he became best-known for his great confessional poems collected in Canzoniere, 'a sort of Odyssey of man in our times'.

Review:

"This is a story about a boy's first experiences of sex . . . Saba has something without which there can never be realism or liberty in art (as in history itself), but only slavery and rhetoric – he had fundamental respect for life and for human beings." —Elsa Morante

"The distinguished Italian poet, too little known in America, never allowed this autobiographical novella of first love to be published in his lifetime. . . . This is a lyrical memoir, filled with the enchantment of Trieste as it opens itself to the wide eyes of a boy on a voyage of discovery." —Publishers Weekly

"Saba has something without which there can never be realism or liberty in art (as in history itself), but only slavery and rhetoric—he had fundamental respect for life and for human beings." —Elsa Morante, author, History

About this edition

• Publisher: Apollo
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1786690683
• ISBN 13: 9781786690685
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320
• Editor: Schmidt Michael