Word: malavoglia
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...that first rose against the Malavoglia. Bastianazzo, the father of the family, was drowned in a storm and the Malavoglia boat was lost...
...born half a century apart, runs the great divide of 19th century European literature, on the one side romanticism, on the other realism. If Manzoni is Italy's Hugo, Verga is its Flaubert, and its Zola too. Now the finest of Verga's novels, I Malavoglia, is introduced to U.S. readers as The House by the Medlar Tree. The Malavoglia are a family of boatmen. Verga's is the plain tale of their destruction by fate...