Giovanni Verga (Critical Survey of Long Fiction)
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Giovanni Verga was a writer of short stories and a playwright as well as a novelist. “Nedda” is the story of a Sicilian peasant girl who harvests olives and suffers the buffets of bad fortune until at length she thanks the Virgin Mary that her baby has been taken and will no longer suffer on earth. This story, written in 1874, prompted Luigi Capuana to predict that Verga had opened “a new seam in the mine of Italian literature.” In Primavera ed altri racconti (1876; springtime and other stories), Verga attempts a certain realism by...
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