Historias de Vigàta, 1
Camilleri, Andrea
The first of a cycle of four volumes of stories set in the imaginary Sicilian town of Vigàta, also the scene of the adventures of the famous commissioner Montalbano, this book collects eight stories so perfect that each one can be read like a small novel. In them, Andrea Camilleri returns to his origins and unfolds all the complexity of the grotesque and varied human inventory that an imagined Sicily contains but, at the same time, a mirror of the world and its miseries: improvised fortune tellers, peasants and students, priests, chiefs and black shirts, inveterate communists, young hustlers, cunning lawyers... From the beginning of the 20th century to the postwar period, passing through the fascist Ventennio and the landing of the allied troops on the island, the reader accompanies the characters on this journey through through time and human nature, which Camilleri observes with caustic scathingness not without joke, but always from that compassionate and benevolent perspective so typical of his narrative. In that utopian place of memory that is Vigàta, the Italian author concocts with masterful skill stories that mix the true with the likely, memory with fable, the local with the universal, as only the best literature knows how to do.
- Author
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Camilleri, Andrea
- Subject
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Literature
> Narrative in other languages
- Genre
- Special features > Short stories
- EAN
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9788418481482
- ISBN
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978-84-18481-48-2
- Edition
- 1
- Publisher
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Altamarea
- Pages
- 304
- High
- 17.0 cm
- Weight
- 11.0 cm
- Release date
- 30-03-2022
- Language
- Spanish
- Series
- Narrativa
- Number
- 23