The House by the Medlar Tree - Softcover

Verga, Giovanni; Cecchetti, Giovanni; Rosenthal, Raymond

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0520048504 ISBN 13: 9780520048508

Publisher: University of California Press, 1984

Synopsis

Giovanni Verga (1840-1922) is the most important of the Italian Realist School of novelists. This new edition of The House by the Medlar Tree (I Malavoglia) makes the complete English version of his masterpiece available once more. The story of the Malavoglia, a family of poor Sicilian fisherman, is Verga's moving rendering of the theme of mankind's struggle for self-betterment, the dignity of the struggle in the face of poverty and hardship, and the tragedy that the struggle inevitably incurs.

D. H. Lawrence described Vega's work as "Homeric." Rayond Rosenthal's translation of I Malavoglia is the only complete version of this novel in English and conveys Vega's lyrical realism and the flavor of Sicialian village life superbly.

The book is introduced by Giovanni Ceccheti, whose own translations of Verga, Mastro-don Gesualdo and The She-Wolf and Other Stories, are also available from California.

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

"Giovanni Verga is one of the masters of European literature, and his novel The House by the Medlar Tree is a great work. I am very happy to see it reprinted and I hope that many people will read it."―Iriving Howe

Language Notes:

Text: English, Italian (translation)

About this edition

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Publication date: 1984
• ISBN 10: 0520048504
• ISBN 13: 9780520048508
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 290