The Mother

by Grazia Deledda

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Grazia Deledda is one of the most important women writers of the twentieth century. Her depiction of the primitive and isolated communities of northern Sardinia in a perceptive, intense and individual style gained her the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1927.'The interest in La Madre lies in the presentation of sheer instinctive life. The love of the priest for the woman is sheer instinctive passion, pure and undefiled by sentiment. The instinct of direct sex is so strong and so vivid, that show more only the bling instinct of mother obedience, the child instinct, can overcome it.' D. H. Lawrence show less

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Racconto molto intenso, si svolge in una notte e in un giorno, questo lavoro della Deledda ruota tutto intorno al tema, da lei ripreso più volte, della madre. Ai tormenti interni di un giovane prete, in preda alle tentazioni della carne, fa da contraltare la vita sacrificata e senza apparente dignità di sua madre, vissuta soltanto in funzione della missione di suo figlio e che vede questi tormenti come una sua personale tragedia, ed infatti, secondo me, il vero dramma o percorso interiore che si svolgerà sarà proprio quello della madre che arriverà a porsi molte domande su quello che capita a suo figlio cercando a sua volta di capire quale che sia la vera natura degli uomini e il loro posto nel mondo. Quale sia il risultato di show more questo percorso non ci è dato sapere, anche perché lei alla fine sceglierà di offrire se stessa come rimedio per la salvezza del figlio in un estremo sacrificio salvifico come solo chi ha capito tutto può fare. show less

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Among the most honored women writers of modern Italy, Deledda wrote naturalistic or realistic novels, drawing upon her Sardinian background for material. Some critics hold, however, that in Deledda's formula often only the names of places and people serve to evoke a Sardinian atmosphere of strangeness. Her best works especially Elias Portolu show more (1903), Cenere (1904), and The Mother (1920) contain excellent portrayals of women. While her characters are complex, often dominated by an overwhelming sense of destiny and by nature's mythic powers, her narrative structures remain simple and classic. She was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1926. (Bowker Author Biography) show less

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The Mother
Original title
La madre
Original language*
Italienisch
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Fiction and Literature, General Fiction
DDC/MDS
853.912Literature & rhetoricItalian, Romanian & related literaturesItalian fiction1900-20th Century1900-1945
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PQ4811 .E6 .M213Language and LiteratureFrench, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese literaturesItalian literatureIndividual authors, 1900-1960
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