Stories From Aspromonte

Title: Stories from Aspromonte

Author: Corrado Alvaro

Binding: Paperback

EAN: 9789076270425

Condition: Good

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Description:
The 1930s. Life is tough for the poverty-stricken shepherds and farmers in the Aspromonte, the mountainous region at the tip of the boot.
Their thinking is governed by superstition and fatalism, their existence by misfortunes and the whims of feudal landowners.
Argirò, a shepherd, does not accept the humiliations and escapes his fate. If his son becomes a priest, he will not have to bow to the padrone, but the padrone to his son.
Corrado Alvaro (1895-1956) was born in San Luca, a small village near Aspromonte in Calabria, in the southernmost part of this region in Italy. In 1919, after completing his studies in literature at the University of Milan, he joined the Corriere della Sera. For almost 40 years he was a journalist and a writer, who distinguished himself as one of the most prominent practitioners of verismo in Italian literature. He had to leave Italy because of his political activities (he wrote for the anti-fascist newspaper Il mondo). In 1941 he returned for his father's funeral. In 1941 he founded, with Libero Bigiaretti and Francesco Jovine, the Italian Writers' Union, of which he held the position of secretary until his death in 1956.