Esta saga épica se adentra en el corazón de Ferrara, una ciudad rica en arte, historia e intriga política. Sigue los destinos entrelazados de varias familias a lo largo de los siglos, tejiendo sus luchas personales sobre el telón de fondo de importantes eventos históricos. Descubrirás un rico tapiz de relaciones humanas, ambición y amor en el marco del vibrante Renacimiento italiano. Es una exploración cautivadora de la vida dentro de una de las ciudades-estado más influyentes de la historia.
A young working class woman abandoned by her bourgeois lover; the tensions of intermarriage between established classes and communities; a holocaust survivor seemingly back from the dead; a formidable socialist activist defying house arrest; the only surviving witness to the first local atrocity of the Second World War.
Into the insular town of 1930s Ferrara, a new doctor arrives. Fadigati is hopeful and modern, and more than anything wants to fit into his new home. But his fresh, appealing appearance soon crumbles when the townsfolk discover his homosexuality, and the young man he pays to be his lover humiliates him publicly.
Un retrato de la burguesía judía de Ferrara al tiempo que una historia de amor no correspondido. El protagonista narra con nostalgia, en este relato de tintes autobiográficos, el desmoronamiento en la Europa fascista de la elite judía, distante, incapaz de aceptar la realidad y de prever el sombrío futuro que les aguarda, una elite encarnada en la familia Finzi-Contini. Su amor por la hija, Micòl, y el posterior desengaño sentimental, marcan el tránsito de la adolescencia a la madurez.
'It was useless to think I'd ever be able to throw open the door behind which I was yet again hiding ... Not now. Not ever.' School is a place of unspoken hierarchies and rivalries for a young teenage boy growing up in the provincial town of Ferrara. But as the everyday classroom and playground dramas are played out, they begin to reflect the disturbing undertones of 1930s Italy, and the narrator realizes that being Jewish means he will always be excluded. The fourth book in Bassani's Romanzo di Ferrara cycle, Behind the Door is a luminous portrayal of childhood friendship and the loss of innocence. A new translation by Jamie McKendrick 'Giorgio Bassani is one of the great witnesses of this century, and one of its great artists' Guardian 'Powerful new translations . . . Bassani began as a poet, and McKendrick's redelivery of this taut uncompromising fiction reveals resonance and generosity' Ali Smith
'Exquisite. . . a classic tour de force' The New York Times 'It struggled to keep itself aloft, to gain height. But then it suddenly gave up, and dropped as though it were breaking into many pieces' Early on a cold Sunday morning, forty-five-year-old Edgardo Limentani gets up to join a shooting party in the countryside surrounding the town of Ferrara. As the day passes, he contemplates his past, his disappointments and how he has got here. Like the birds he shoots, he realizes, he is trapped, broken, waiting alone for the final coup de grâce. Then he sees a way out. The fifth book in Bassani's Novel of Ferrara sequence, and his final novel, The Heron is a taut, poignant portrait of a middle-aged man's reckoning with his life.
A collection of short stories that evokes isolated lives and a lost world in stories that are set in the Jewish-Italian community of 1930s Ferrara.