biography
pronunciation:
[vairga]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1840–1922)
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| biography:
| Writer, born in Catania, Sicily, S Italy. A member of the Italian verismo (‘realist’) school of novelists, he wrote numerous violent short stories describing the miserable life of Sicilian peasantry, including Vita dei campi (1880, Life in the Fields) and Cavalleria rusticana (1884), which was made into an opera by Mascagni. The same Zolaesque theme prevails in his novels, I malavoglia (1881), Mastro Don Gesualdo (1888), and others - the futility of the struggle to cast aside the bonds of tradition and the inescapable loneliness of the individual. D H Lawrence translated some of his works. |
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