tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post4772703272769788800..comments2024-03-27T16:48:21.039-05:00Comments on Wuthering <br>Expectations: a miserable account of a few, ordinary boyish feats - Ippolito Nievo's Confessions of an ItalianAmateur Reader (Tom)http://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-46783972917290884392015-04-01T08:12:45.184-05:002015-04-01T08:12:45.184-05:00Is it ever connected! I'll poke at that a lit...Is it ever connected! I'll poke at that a little bit on Thursday. I'll just say this - it features a dog.<br /><br />Lampedusa of course had read everything, but Nievo provided a number of elements he could fruitfully steal.Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-87574307385601050522015-04-01T04:43:15.117-05:002015-04-01T04:43:15.117-05:00I can't recall where I heard of this novel, po...I can't recall where I heard of this novel, possibly in another of your posts or comments elsewhere, but is it connected in some way to Lampedusa's The Leopard? If so, I would be interested in hearing more about any connections/parallels. (Apologies if I'm wide of the mark here.)JacquiWinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16220597283351925721noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-75633806050788882302015-03-31T22:47:15.547-05:002015-03-31T22:47:15.547-05:00We need to read some Greek novels from the same pe...We need to read some Greek novels from the same period to test this thesis. If there are such things. If there are such things in English, which I doubt.<br /><br />I wonder what Nievo would have done if he had lived. It is easy to imagine him becoming a journalist and moving in an Eça-like direction. Or more likely he would have joined the government and never written another word of fiction. When he died he was administering the newly liberated Sicily.<br /><br />Nievo has one important earlier literary model for that type of young man, Ugo Foscolo and <i>The Last Letters of Jacopo Ortis</i>. Foscolo is actually a recurring character in Nievo's novel. I wonder if Eça had read that book.Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-51362568098935236662015-03-31T19:28:17.790-05:002015-03-31T19:28:17.790-05:00Nievo's young man echoes Eça's young men: ...Nievo's young man echoes Eça's young men: deeply proud (of a glorious but quite illusory past), quite humiliated (about their mediocre present in comparison to modern Europe) and very afraid of the future (which will soon end with the nation's obliteration). I wonder if it's a Mediterranean thing actually.LMRhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08538873868140070018noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-90534066998602718982015-03-30T23:12:22.925-05:002015-03-30T23:12:22.925-05:00Yes, three more pieces. Taking Friday off.
The b...Yes, three more pieces. Taking Friday off.<br /><br />The book is easily worth the effort. Italo Calvino is not crazy. So it's not Manzoni, how many books are?Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-17312120037259501182015-03-30T22:50:28.646-05:002015-03-30T22:50:28.646-05:00I have Confessions, have not yet read past the int...I have <i>Confessions</i>, have not yet read past the introduction, but did read the Tim Parks article. I'm determined to keep an open mind, but already sense that there's little doubt I'll be preferring Manzoni, too. <br /><br />Will you be writing more about <i>Confessions</i>?seraillonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17654593356535433945noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-28088760186619524952015-03-30T21:59:25.078-05:002015-03-30T21:59:25.078-05:00Yet Italy is still there, still one country, again...Yet Italy is still there, still one country, against long odds. Hard to believe.Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-60528913394361964592015-03-30T19:25:59.309-05:002015-03-30T19:25:59.309-05:00" He helped create a unified Italy, but he di..." He helped create a unified Italy, but he did not quite get to see it."<br />Fortunately, perhaps. Even by the standards of romantic nationalists, the discrepancy between the dreamed-of Italy and the one achieved was noticeably disappointing.Roger Allenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11012987757094423896noreply@blogger.com