Don Giovanni in Sicilia

by Vitaliano Brancati

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"Giovanni Percolla's erratic journey through life, from boyhood to courtship." -- Publisher's description from website, https://www.eurobooks.co.uk/languagebooks/9780850485813 viewed 9/8/2008.

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This pretty old book (1942), is depicting the "Don Juan" in the Sicilian man, living in a world dominated by this thoughts, ideas about women, dreams about them .... without coming to reality. So there are some rather funny scenes but upon taking a closer look the funny aspect makes place for sadness, solitude and a grande tristesse.
No that one starts to feel sorry for the protagonist, it's too pathetic.
Make no mistake, this is the author's goal, to describe the pathetic, piteous aspects in the men their attitude towards the women. But the style is too old to still be very attractive to nowaday readers.
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Don Giovanni in Sicilia racconta la storia di Giovanni Percolla, scapolo quarantenne consumato, come tutti i maschi catanesi, da un'inestinguibile sete sessuale. A un tratto, però, Percolla riesce a imprimere una svolta radicale alla propria vita grazie all'amore per la giovane Ninetta, che diviene presto sua sposa. Giovanni si sottomette completamente alla moglie, e per suo desiderio non solo abiura gli amici, le sorelle e tutte le abitudini coltivate fino a quel momento; ma abbandona anche la città natale per trasferirsi a Milano. Il soggiorno si rivela però un fallimento e i due tornano in Sicilia, dove Percolla precipita nella stessa inerzia fatta di gesti sterili e ripetitivi da cui aveva creduto di voler fuggire. In Don show more Giovanni in Sicilia Vitaliano Brancati porta alle estreme conseguenze quella deformazione grottesca di personaggi e situazioni tipica della sua narrativa. show less

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Tascabili [Bompiani] (Letteratura, Storia d'Italia attraverso la narrativa,9)

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Canonical title*
Don Giovanni in Sicilia
Original title
Don Giovanni in Sicilia
People/Characters
Giovanni Percolla
Important places
Catania, Sicily, Italy
Related movies*
Don Giovanni in Sicilia (1967 | IMDb)
Original language*
Italiano
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Fiction and Literature, General Fiction
DDC/MDS
853.912Literature & rhetoricItalian, Romanian & related literaturesItalian fiction1900-20th Century1900-1945
LCC
PQ4807 .R28 .D6Language and LiteratureFrench, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese literaturesItalian literatureIndividual authors, 1900-1960
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Members
251
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128,774
Reviews
4
Rating
½ (3.50)
Languages
8 — Catalan, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish
Media
Paper, Ebook
ISBNs
25
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8