Giovanni Verga (1840-1922)
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Description: A biography of the Italian dramatist and analysis of his works.
This article was originally published in The Contemporary Drama of Italy . Lander McClintock. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1920. pp. 67-76. may be said to have made a faithful literary chronicle of the inner and intimate life of Southern Italy and of his native Sicily; and this to such good effect that a few years ago his European fame rivaled that of D'Annunzio. This reputation has, however, waned with the decline of the vogue of the realistic novel; although now with [some historic] perspective to stabilize our judgment we may safely place him as the chief of the Verists, the most eminent writer of local novels and plays. His plays of the fisherfolk, the shepherds, and the smalltown people of Sicily are unsurpassed and inimitable. He did not confine himself to the country or to Sicily, but wrote several novels and at least two plays whose interests and events lay outside his native locality; but it is undoubtedly true that he is at his best when his feet are firmly planted on the soil, when his inspiration is drawn from his own people. The peasant of his own country is to Verga an open book; his sympathetic knowledge of his countrymen is so profound, his fidelity to fact so scrupulous, that his plays may well rank as trustworthy documents in the social history of unhappy Sicily.
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| Description: | A biography of Italian dramatist Giovanni Verga and analysis of his works. |
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