Graziella: A Novel
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Publishing Details
Graziella: A Novel
By (Author) Alphonse de Lamartine
Translated by Raymond N. MacKenzie
University of Minnesota Press
University of Minnesota Press
13th November 2018
United States
Classifications
General
Fiction
Fiction in translation
843.7
Physical Properties
Hardback
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 In 1812 Alphonse de Lamartine, a young man of means, traveled through southern Italy, where, during a sojourn in Naples, he fell in love with a young woman who worked in a cigar factory-and whose death
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.
