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Loading... The Day of Judgment (1977)by Salvatore Satta
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Una Nuoro che cambia, simbolo (geograficamente) sovrastante un'isola che sparisce trasformandosi, nelle parole chiuse di Satta. Un mesocosmo di usi, caratteri, bestie e servitu'. Nello svolgersi della schiatta dei Sanna, il percorso della memoria di Satta narra il dettaglio delle vite schive e spesso sprecate dei nuoresi a cavallo del '900. I dolori di allora sono tuttavia gli stessi di oggi; in più c'e' pero' poesia, dignità e un senso del tempo che passa che va oltre al normale sentimento di nostalgia. Un libro denso e opaco, terapeutico come un pianto. ( ) An exquisite book, somewhat autobiographical, by an eminent Italian jurist, published posthumously and his only work of fiction. Tells of life in Sardinia (Nuoro) in the early 1900s. A true and instant modern Italian classic, right up there with The Leopard (the Sicilian version, if you will). Used the last lines of the book as the epigram to my own novel. no reviews | add a review
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At precisely nine o'clock, as he did every evening, Don Sebastiano Sanna Carboni pushed back his armchair, carefully folded the newspaper which he had read to the very last line, tidied up the little things on his desk, and prepared to go down to the ground floor... Around the turn of the twentieth century, in the isolated Sardinian town of Nuoro, the aristocratic notary Don Sebastiano Sanna reflects on his life, his family's history and the fortunes of this provincial backwater where he has lived out his days. No library descriptions found. |
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