Graziella: A Novel
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Graziella: A Novel
By (Author) Alphonse de Lamartine
Translated by Raymond N. MacKenzie
University of Minnesota Press
University of Minnesota Press
1st December 2018
United States
Classifications
General
Fiction
Fiction in translation
843.7
Physical Properties
Paperback
168
Width 127mm, Height 203mm, Spine 25mm
Description
In its first modern translation, a novel-cum-memoir of a Frenchman's erotic awakening in Italy by a preeminent writer of the Romantic period.
When I was eighteen, the narrator begins, as if penning his memoir, my family entrusted me to the care of a relative whose business affairs called her to Tuscany.
The tale that unfolds here, of a young man's amorous experiences amid the natural grandeur and subtle splendors of the Italian countryside, is one of the finest works of fiction in the French Romantic tradition. Remarkable for its contemplative prose, its dreamy passions and seductive drawing of the Italian landscape, and its place in the Romantic canon,Graziella is a timeless portrait of love, chronicling the remorse and the misguided ideals of youth that find their expression, if not their amends, in art.
Reviews
"In a new translation and with contextual notes and an introduction by MacKenzie, Lamartine's story comes to us afresh." Kirkus Reviews
Author Bio
Alphonse de Lamartine (17901869) is best known as Frances preeminent Romantic poet and, in later life, as a progressive politician who advocated for the abolition of slavery and freedom of the press.
Raymond N. MacKenzie is professor of English at the University of St. Thomas and translator of Jules Barbey dAurevillys Diaboliques and Stendhals Italian Chronicles, both published by Minnesota.
