Annalisa Blisini - Grazia Deledda

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Résumé :
Per San Michele la famiglia Bilsini cambi? di casa ed anche di terra. Era una famiglia numerosa: cinque figli maschi, la madre vedova, e uno zio di lei, che, sebbene mezzo paralitico e senza un soldo di suo, poteva dirsene il capo. Appunto per i consigli dello zio Dionisio, i Bilsini avevano venduto la loro piccola propriet? per prendere in affitto un vasto fondo, gi? antico feudo gentilizio che, di decadenza in decadenza, acquistato in ultimo a vile prezzo da un fabbricante di scope, veniva da questi concesso a modestissime condizioni annuali: cento dieci lire la biolca, due capponi, quaranta uova d'inverno e un cestino d'uva da tavola per l'estate. Da anni questa terra giaceva in abb...

Biographie:
s early works were published in the fashion magazine L&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&apos...