Among Women Only (Masterplots II: World Fiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Cesare Pavese
- First Published: 1949
- Type of Work: Symbolic realism
- Time of Work: The late 1940’s
- Setting: Turin, Italy
- Principal Characters: Clelia Oitana, Rosetta Mola, Momina
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction
- Subjects: Suicide, 1940’s, Class consciousness, Women’s issues, Italy or Italians, Fashion industry
- Locales: Turin, Italy
The Novel
Clelia Oitana returns to Turin in the dim light of a snowy January day, a few years after the end of World War II. She registers at the best hotel, answers no telephone calls, and, in solitude, savors her return to her birthplace, a major industrial city in northwest Italy. The calm ends when she looks into the hallway to see medical attendants carrying away an unconscious young woman, who, while alone, took an overdose of Veronal. Clelia later discovers that the woman is Rosetta Mola, the daughter of an established Turin family.
Clelia, the narrator, is...
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