Word: bassani
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...GARDEN OF THE FINZI-CONTINIS, by Giorgio Bassani. The author was responsible for the posthumous publication of Lampedusa's The Leopard, and he has learned much from the master. Bassani's gracefully written novel depicts the elegant, decadent world of a rich Jewish family and its confrontation with Fascism and death...
...GARDEN OF THE FINZI-CONTINIS, by Giorgio Bassani. The author was responsible for the posthumous publication of Lampedusa's The Leopard, and he has learned much from the master. Bassani's gracefully written novel depicts the elegant, decadent world of a rich Jewish family and its confrontation with Fascism...
...GARDEN OF THE FINZI-CONTINIS, by Giorgio Bassani. The author was responsible for the posthumous publication of Lampedusa's The Leopard, and he has learned much from the master. Bassani's gracefully written novel depicts the elegant, decadent world of a rich Jewish family and its confrontation with Fascism and death...
...GARDEN OF THE FINZI-CONTINIS, by Giorgio Bassani. The author was responsible for the posthumous publication of The Leopard, and he has learned much from the master. Bassani's gracefully written novel depicts the elegant, decadent world of a rich Jewish family and its confrontation with Fascism and death...
Burnished Symbols. In a way, death was what the Finzi-Continis had always wanted; and it is Author Bassani's subtle achievement to have described their lives with compassion but without sentimentality. His style is graceful, disciplined, direct. Occasional Italicisms will distract American readers, and few of the characters are drawn in detail. But Bassani's principal concern is with mood and meaning, and his leisurely, Proustian sentences brush and burnish a world of unexpected symbols. Although the novel is about Jews, it is only incidentally about Jewishness; the Finzi-Continis' confrontation with Fascism is employed...