Beautiful Antonio
by Vitaliano Brancati
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Having spent some time in Rome, Antonio - the handsomest young man in Catania - returns to his native town with the reputation of being a playboy and with a long list of amorous adventures behind him. To please his father, Antonio agrees to marry the beautiful Barbara. A year after their marriage however - scandal erupts. Barbara is still a virgin! The bride's family attempt to annul the marriage and Antonio's honour seems irrevocably lost.Tags
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An old novel, Brancati deceased in the fifties, but still a vibrant story about Italians, so beautiful, so sexy, so .... unable to do what seems to dominate their life. Set behind the background of the uprising of fascism in Italy and eventually WWII, it's all about arranging a job, a marriage, an affair, a ... whatever.
It's Italy, more specific Sicily, as we all know it from the past where nothing was done in an ordinary way but everything was arranged.
And then comes this man, the most beautiful of all and ..... he's not able to "perform". The world keeps on turning but for our protagonist everything stops.
Written with vivacity, humour, long and winding monologues full of Italian bravery and then again with hilarious scenes, show more confessions, bluffing.... Every page of this book breathes the south, the Italian style of living, having conversations and avoiding reality.
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It's Italy, more specific Sicily, as we all know it from the past where nothing was done in an ordinary way but everything was arranged.
And then comes this man, the most beautiful of all and ..... he's not able to "perform". The world keeps on turning but for our protagonist everything stops.
Written with vivacity, humour, long and winding monologues full of Italian bravery and then again with hilarious scenes, show more confessions, bluffing.... Every page of this book breathes the south, the Italian style of living, having conversations and avoiding reality.
Read this book. show less
En mästare av upprepningar i dialoger som kunde ha kortats ned med 80%. Verkligen inte min kopp av te det här.
Vitaliano Brancati (1907-1954) schreef Mooie Antonio in 1949, wanneer je weer vrijuit kon spotten met het fascisme van Mussolini. Maar het is toch vooral de Italiaanse macho die het moet ontgelden in deze zedenkomedie.
Volledige bespreking via http://wraakvandedodo.blogspot.be/2012/10/vitaliano-brancati-mooie-antonio.html
Volledige bespreking via http://wraakvandedodo.blogspot.be/2012/10/vitaliano-brancati-mooie-antonio.html
Oct 17, 2012Dutch
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Fecha de publicación 1973
Editorial Planeta
Serie: BIBLIOTECA UNIVERSAL PLANETA
Fábula/18 Volumen 50
230 Páginas
Edición al cuidado de Carlos Pujol
Título original: Il bell`Antonio
Traducción: Rosa Marcela Pericás
(c) Casa editrice Valentino Bompiani & C., Milán 1973
Editorial Planeta, S.S., Calvet, 51-53, Barcelona (España)
Cubierta: Foto Alberto Viñals
IMPRESO EN ESPAÑA
ISBN 84-320-6350-9
Editorial Planeta
Serie: BIBLIOTECA UNIVERSAL PLANETA
Fábula/18 Volumen 50
230 Páginas
Edición al cuidado de Carlos Pujol
Título original: Il bell`Antonio
Traducción: Rosa Marcela Pericás
(c) Casa editrice Valentino Bompiani & C., Milán 1973
Editorial Planeta, S.S., Calvet, 51-53, Barcelona (España)
Cubierta: Foto Alberto Viñals
IMPRESO EN ESPAÑA
ISBN 84-320-6350-9
Sep 3, 2025Spanish
853.912 BRA
Apr 13, 2020Italian
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- Canonical title
- Beautiful Antonio
- Original title
- Il bell'Antonio
- Alternate titles
- Antonio the Great Lover
- Original publication date
- 1949
- People/Characters*
- Antonio Magnano; don Alfio Magnano; Barbara Puglisi; Edoardo Lentini; Ermenegildo Fasanaro
- Related movies*
- Il bell'Antonio (1960)
- Epigraph*
- O, het is mogelijk op
aarde geluk te ervaren. Dat wist ik
op de dag dat ik jouw gezicht zag.
Giacomo Leopardi - Dedication*
- Voor mijn vrouw
- First words*
- Van alle Siciliaanse vrijgezellen die zich rond 1930 in Rome vestigden waren er, als mijn geheugen me niet in de steek laat, minstens acht die een gemeubileerd huis huurden in niet al te lawaaige en drukke wijken, en bijna al... (show all)lemaal kwamen ze te wonen in de buurt van vermaarde monumenten waarvan de geschiedenis hen echter onverschillig liet en waarvan ze de schoonheid niet opmerkten - sterker nog, ze zagen ze soms gewoonweg niet eens.
- Last words*
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)En daarna legde hij heel zachtjes en voorzichtig de hoorn op de haak.
- Original language*
- Italiaans
*Some information comes from Common Knowledge in other languages. Click "Edit" for more information.
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- Fiction and Literature, General Fiction
- DDC/MDS
- 853.912 — Literature & rhetoric Italian, Romanian & related literatures Italian fiction 1900- 20th Century 1900-1945
- LCC
- PQ4807 .R28 .B413 — Language and Literature French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese literatures Italian literature Individual authors, 1900-1960
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