Matilde Serao

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Matilde Serao nacque dal matrimonio tra l'avvocato napoletano Francesco Serao e Paolina Borely, nobile greca decaduta, discendente dei principi Scanavy di Trebisonda. Il padre Francesco, avvocato e giornalista, aveva dovuto lasciare la sua citt nel 1848 perch ricercato come anti-borbonico. Durante l'esilio in Grecia aveva trovato lavoro come insegnante. Conobbe e spos Paolina Borely, che sar il modello della giovane Matilde.

I ricordi del viaggio in Terrasanta nella primavera del 1893.

Nel libro, scritto in tre momenti diversi a partire dal 1884, Matilde Serao fa un'accorata descrizione dei quartieri pi diseredati della Napoli del tempo. Protagonisti sono, quindi, il "popolo" napoletano e la sua vita quotidiana con le peculiarit che li contraddistinguono: tipo di alimentazione, forme di religiosit , lotto clandestino, usura, relazioni sociali...

La conquista di Roma un romanzo scritto nel 1885, incentrato sulla vita parlamentare della Roma umbertina. Protagonista Francesco Sangiorgio, neoeletto deputato della quattordicesima legislatura. Giunto a Roma dalla Basilicata, pieno di speranze e di attese, incontra il successo e l'amore.

Matilda Serao was a giant of early 20th century Italian literature as well as a pioneer. She was a journalist -- she ran her own newspaper for several years -- and an accomplished novelist and short story writer who was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature six times. She was also a genuine character. Edith Wharton described her like this, "With her strident dress and intonation, she seemed an incongruous figure in that drawing-room where everything was in half-shades and semi-tones, but when she began to speak we had found our master." In these stories, Serao writes of love and romance as if she were Barbara Cartland's older, crankier -- and often much funnier -- sister. She turns many of the standard romantic cliches upside down with sometimes tragic, sometimes comic, but always unexpected, results. After an evening with Matilde Serao, you will never look at romance quite the same way In this edition, these stories appear in English for the first time.

Il romanzo La virtu di Checchina, capolavoro della Serao, dopo essere apparso a puntate sulla Domenica Letteraria, venne pubblicato a Catania nel 1884. Ne e protagonista la giovane e piacente Checchina, sposata ad un medico avaro ed insensibile che non la comprende. Ormai rassegnata ad una vita grigia e monotona, Checchina riscopre la gioia grazie alle attenzioni di un marchese, invitato a cena nella loro casa dallo stesso marito.

AL MIO CARISSIMO FIGLIUOLO ANTONIO TENERAMENTE .

Il treno si ferm . - Capua; Capua.

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"Dal vero" una raccolta di racconti scritti da una giovanissima Matilde Serao, all'et di 22 anni. Questi racconti sono stati la palestra nella quale la Serao ha iniziato ad esprimersi nella lingua del verismo, anche se, come lei stessa ammise, ancora troppo ostacolata dalle idee. i racconti sono, tuttavia, piacevoli perch traspirano, nei personaggi, nella descrizione degli ambienti e nelle stesse parole, di una sensualit incontenibile, di un desiderio di fresca trasgressione. Lo stile narrativo vario, passando da dialoghi serrati a descrizioni minuziose, sempre con l'aiuto di un lessico ricco ed elegante.

Alla baronessa Giulia de Rothachild Pavillon de Pregny .