Oh, Serafina!: A Fable of Ecology, Lunacy, and Love: Other Voices of Italy
Autor Giuseppe Berto Traducere de Gregory Conti Cuvânt înainte de Matteo Gilebbien Limba Engleză Paperback – 11 aug 2023 – vârsta ani
Heir to the FIBA button factory in Lombardy, Augustus is profiting from Italy’s postwar industrial boom. Yet the dreamy young man is far from your stereotypical industrialist. He is less interested in making money than in talking to the birds in the surrounding garden and in making love to a beautiful factory worker named Palmira. But when the money-hungry Palmira schemes to have him institutionalized, Augustus finds a new love among his fellow mental patients: flute-playing flower child Serafina. Can Augustus and Serafina find a way to break free and express their love of each other and of nature in this crazy world?
Newly translated into English, Giuseppe Berto’s charming 1973 novel Oh, Serafina! was one of the first works of Italian literature to deal with ecological themes while also questioning the destructive effects of industrial capitalism, the many forms spirituality might take, and the ways our society defines madness. This translation includes a foreword from literary scholar Matteo Gilebbi that provides biographical, historical, and philosophical context for appreciating this whimsical fable of ecology, lunacy, and love.
Newly translated into English, Giuseppe Berto’s charming 1973 novel Oh, Serafina! was one of the first works of Italian literature to deal with ecological themes while also questioning the destructive effects of industrial capitalism, the many forms spirituality might take, and the ways our society defines madness. This translation includes a foreword from literary scholar Matteo Gilebbi that provides biographical, historical, and philosophical context for appreciating this whimsical fable of ecology, lunacy, and love.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781978835740
ISBN-10: 1978835744
Pagini: 140
Ilustrații: n-a
Dimensiuni: 127 x 203 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.03 kg
Editura: Rutgers University Press
Colecția Rutgers University Press
Seria Other Voices of Italy
ISBN-10: 1978835744
Pagini: 140
Ilustrații: n-a
Dimensiuni: 127 x 203 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.03 kg
Editura: Rutgers University Press
Colecția Rutgers University Press
Seria Other Voices of Italy
Notă biografică
GIUSEPPE BERTO (1914–1978) was born in a small town in Veneto, Italy, and went on to author numerous screenplays, short stories, and novels, including The Sky Is Red, written during his time as a P. O. W. in Texas. A controversial author in postwar Italy, Berto was nevertheless the recipient of the Viareggio Prize and the Campiello Prize, and his work has drawn more critical attention in recent years.
GREGORY CONTI has over twenty-five published translations, including works by Emilio Lussu, Rosetta Loy, and Paolo Rumiz. His most recent translations include two books by Stefano Mancuso: The Incredible Journey of Plants and The Nation of Plants. He has lived in Perugia, Italy, since 1985.
GREGORY CONTI has over twenty-five published translations, including works by Emilio Lussu, Rosetta Loy, and Paolo Rumiz. His most recent translations include two books by Stefano Mancuso: The Incredible Journey of Plants and The Nation of Plants. He has lived in Perugia, Italy, since 1985.
Cuprins
Author's Note, Giuseppe Berto
Translator's Note, Gregory Conti
Foreword, Matteo Gilebbi
Oh, Serafina!
About the Author
About the Translator
Translator's Note, Gregory Conti
Foreword, Matteo Gilebbi
Oh, Serafina!
About the Author
About the Translator
Recenzii
"A madcap, modern-day St. Francis who talks to the birds, Augustus is committed to an institution by his wife at a time when mental health care rested on marginalization and segregation. There he falls in love with Serafina, another outcast, in this lighthearted fable that is sometimes pointed, but never caustic."
"Entertaining, profound, and timely, Giuseppe Berto’s Oh, Serafina! shows the marvels hidden in worlds that, despite their apparent marginality, teem with vitality and poetry. Perfectly attuned with the novel’s spirit and rhythm, Gregory Conti’s elegant translation prompts the rediscovery of this jewel of Italian literature."
“Oh, Serafina! is a bizarrely beautiful fable for the ages. Thanks to the deft work of translator Gregory Conti, this tale of industry, lust, mental illness, and ecological sensibility is a most welcome addition to the small but growing canon of Italian environmental literature available in translation.”
“Fifty years ago, Giuseppe Berto wrote his fable of ecology, lunacy, and love against the backdrop of the industrialized Italy of his day. But books, fortunately, outlive their occasional contexts. In Gregory Conti's flawless translation, Oh, Serafina! shines as a tale that belongs even, if not especially, to our own time.”
Descriere
Newly translated into English, Giuseppe Berto’s 1973 novel Oh, Serafina! is a whimsical fable of ecology, lunacy, and love. One of the first environmentally-conscious works of Italian literature, it questions the destructive effects of industrial capitalism, the many forms spirituality might take, and the ways our society defines madness.