Audio Anthology of Italian Literature Recording #9 The Realism of Giovanni Verga, from "Novelle" Read by Moro Silo and Stefania Pimazzoni Running time: 46 min. Cassette $19.95 CD $29.95
The second half of the 19th century saw the rise of a realist tendency in Italian literature created by the reaction against Romantic idealism. The Realist movement proposed an objective, scientific analysis of society and the psychology of the individual, detached from any personal, emotional or ideological intrusion from the author. The master of Realism was Giovanni Verga (1840-1922) whose novels, particularly "I Malavoglia", describe the dismal world of the dispossessed and wretched in Sicily, oppressed by a symbolic adverse Fate.
La Lupa (10'24'') Rosso Malpelo (first part) (13' 05'') Rosso Malpelo (second part) (22'42'')