Sole d'estate - Grazia Deledda

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Résumé :
Anche le burrasche sono buone per i poveri. Il mare, come un padrone rabbioso che impone alla serva di fare una buona pulizia alla casa, rigetta a terra tutti i detriti che non gli garbano: e questi rifiuti formano la ricchezza dei poveretti della spiaggia. Ecco, per esempio, il signor Milio, proprio il signor Milio in persona, antico proprietario di un piccolo cantiere, percorrere il lido quanto ? lungo, dallo sbocco del fiume al molo, con un suo misterioso sacchetto, bianco come la fodera di un guanciale: e come un guanciale la foderetta si gonfia, ma di bitorzoli duri che sembrano davvero batuffoli di lana schiacciata. Ognuno di questi bitorzoli neri ? costato un ripiegamento della sch...

Biographie:
Deledda was born in Nuoro, Sardinia, into a middle-class family, to Giovanni Antonio Deledda and Francesca Cambosu, as the fourth of seven siblings. She attended elementary school (the minimum required at the time) and was then educated by a private tutor (a guest of one of her relatives) and moved on to study literature on her own. It was during this time that she started displaying an interest in writing short novels, mostly inspired by the life of Sardinian peasants and their struggles. Her teacher encouraged her to submit her writing to a newspaper and, at age 13, her first story was published in a local journal. Some of Deledda&apos...

Sommaire:
Deledda was born in Nuoro, Sardinia, into a middle-class family, to Giovanni Antonio Deledda and Francesca Cambosu, as the fourth of seven siblings. She attended elementary school (the minimum required at the time) and was then educated by a private tutor (a guest of one of her relatives) and moved on to study literature on her own. It was during this time that she started displaying an interest in writing short novels, mostly inspired by the life of Sardinian peasants and their struggles. Her teacher encouraged her to submit her writing to a newspaper and, at age 13, her first story was published in a local journal. Some of Deledda's early works were published in the fashion magazine L'ultima moda between 1888 and 1889. In 1890 Trevisani published Nell'azzurro (Into the Blue), her first collection of short stories. Deledda's main focus was the representation of poverty and the struggles associated with it through a combination of imaginary and autobiographical elements. Her family wasn't particularly supportive of her desire to write....