Giorgio Bassani, Behind the Door (first published 1964). The Novel of Ferrara, part 4. Translated from the Italian by Jamie McKendrick (Norton, 2018) As in the previous sections of Bassani’s collection of stories and novels set in and around the … Continue reading → The post Giorgio Bassani, Behind the Door appeared first on Tredynas Days.| Tredynas Days
A young Jewish man's love for a beautiful woman doesn't run smooth; then the 1938 anti-Semitic racial laws transform their lives.| Tredynas Days
Giorgio Bassani (1916-2000), The Gold-Rimmed Spectacles. Pt 2 of The Novel of Ferrara, translated from the Italian by Jamie McKendrick (W.W. Norton, 2016). First published 1958 Giorgio Bassani revised a sequence of novels and short stories into a single entity … Continue reading → The post Giorgio Bassani, The Gold-Rimmed Spectacles appeared first on Tredynas Days.| Tredynas Days
Five stories about the ways the citizens of Ferrara behaved during the regime of the fascists after WWI: their shame and complicity.| Tredynas Days
I had never read Buzzati before and having heard such wonderful things about his famous novel The Tartar Steppe it seemed like the time was right to give it a try and what an absolutely brilliant r…| Radhika's Reading Retreat
