The Gold-Rimmed Eyeglasses (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Giorgio Bassani
- First Published: 1958
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Social realism
- Time of Work: The 1930’s
- Setting: Ferrara and Rimini, Italy
- Genres: Long fiction, Social realism, Holocaust literature
- Subjects: Homosexuality or homosexuals, Doctors, 1930’s, Anti-Semitism, Italy or Italians, Students or student life, Persecution
- Locales: Italy, Ferrara, Italy, Rimini, Italy
Characters Discussed
The narrator, a young man of age twenty (at the time of the main events of the story), a member of a middle-class Jewish family of Ferrara and a student of literature at the University of Bologna. He is becoming aware of the impact of Fascism on his family and on all Jews. Sensitive and sympathetic to the trials of other Jews, yet barely grasping what the growing anti-Semitism of the Fascist regime may mean to Italian Jews, he witnesses the torments of Dr. Fadigati, who is in his own way just as much an outsider as the narrator is going to be in Italian...
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