Giovanni Verga (Critical Survey of Drama)
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Giovanni Verga is best known as a novelist and a short-story writer and is generally considered Italy’s greatest novelist, after Alessandro Manzoni, and the father of the contemporary Italian novel, especially that of the neorealist school. His name is closely associated with the term Verismo, which was the Italian manifestation of French naturalism. Verismo, or Verism, as explicated by Verga’s close friend Luigi Capuana, like naturalism, rejected the current...
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