The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Giorgio Bassani
- First Published: 1962
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Social realism
- Time of Work: Primarily fall, 1938, to summer, 1939
- Setting: Ferrara, Italy
- Genres: Long fiction, Social realism
- Subjects: Family or family life, Love or romance, 1930’s, Jews or Jewish life, Anti-Semitism, Italy or Italians, Wealth, Fascism, Persecution, Tennis
- Locales: Italy, Ferrara, Italy
Characters Discussed
Micòl Finzi-Contini (mee- KOHL FEEN-zee-kohn-TEE-nee), a young and wealthy Jewish woman of twenty-three, accustomed both to the adoration of her family and friends and to having her own way. She is unenthusiastically working on a graduate thesis about Emily Dickinson. Anti-Semitic feelings, propaganda, and regulations in her hometown of Ferrara, Italy, force her to socialize with other Jews, rather than with Gentiles of her own social and economic station. She lives with her parents, brother, and grandmother on the large ancestral estate belonging to her...
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