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Original Title:	ll giardino dei Finzi-Contini
ISBN:	1400044227 (ISBN13: 9781400044221)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Il romanzo di Ferrara #3
Setting:	Ferrara(Italy)
Literary Awards:	Premio Viareggio (1962)

The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (Il romanzo di Ferrara #3)

Giorgio Bassani

Hardcover | Pages: 246 pages

Rating: 3.82 | 6826 Users | 439 Reviews

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Title	:	The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (Il romanzo di Ferrara #3)
Author	:	Giorgio Bassani
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 246 pages
Published	:	July 19th 2005 by Everyman's Library (first published 1962)
Categories	:	Fiction. Classics. Cultural. Italy. European Literature. Italian Literature

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Giorgio Bassani's acclaimed novel of unrequited love and the plight of the Italian Jews on the brink of World War II has become a classic of modern Italian literature.
Made into an Academy Award winning film in 1970, "The Garden of the Finzi Continis "is a richly evocative and nostalgic depiction of prewar Italy. The narrator, a young middle-class Jew in the Italian city of Ferrara, has long been fascinated from afar by the Finzi-Continis, a wealthy and aristocratic Jewish family, and especially by their charming daughter Micol. But it is not until 1938 that he is invited behind the walls of their lavish estate, as local Jews begin to gather there to avoid the racial laws of the Fascists, and the garden of the Finzi-Continis becomes a sort of idyllic sanctuary in an increasingly brutal world. Years later after the war, the narrator returns in memory to his doomed relationship with the lovely Micol, and to the predicament that faced all the Ferrarese Jews, in this unforgettably wrenching portrait of a community about to be destroyed by the world outside the garden walls."

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What impossible people they were! - he'd say. What a strange, absurd tangle of incurable contradictions they represented 'socially'! If The Gold-Rimmed Spectacles conflated the tragedy of Dr Fadigati with the announcements of Mussolini's Racial Laws, then this book turns the pages back to our unnamed narrator's boyhood and adolescence and parallels his painful first love with the increasing power of Italy's fascist regime. We know from the outset that the Jewish Finzi-Continis don't survive the

A historical novel set among an Italian Jewish community in the late 1930s, this book has lyrical descriptive passages and a moving elegiac storyline. Very enjoyable.Like so many of the books I read long before joining GR, I would have to read this again to write a review that does it justice. It is part of a cycle of novels set in Ferrara and all of the others are now available in the same Penguin Modern Classics series. Like another of my favourite books, Hopeful Monsters by Nicholas Mosley,

A Masterpiece. One of Italy's greatest novels, about Jewish people during the rise of fascism, but also about many other things that are universal: youth, the lure of beauty, unrequited love, untold desires, decadence. It's as elegiac and heartbreaking as a piece of great literature can be. One of those novels that touch the heart and the mind, that illuminates the human spirit, and whose melancholic enchantments remain haunting long after the book is closed.

A classic, rich people playing tennis and philosophizing love story with a backdrop of Italy, 1930's. The story so focuses on lifestyle that it could have been set almost anywhere in the elite Western world, including the inescapable fact of being Jewish. The consequences of being Jewish varied from country to country, and what slips into the love story is the Italian story, there in the north, on the border with Germany, with a Mussolini making friends with a Hitler, with local insults and

A side-note about this particular edition. I read a paperback from Quartet Books that is a reprint from 1978 apparently based on the first English edition from Faber and Faber published in 1965. There is no mention of the translator! According to the Wikipedia page about the book (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gar...), the translator had to be Isabel Quigley, who is considered, according to her Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabel_...), one of the top ten translators of

This novel has been languishing on my bookshelves for years and years. I can't quite say why I never started reading it, but I think I shied away from the subject matter.I don't know if another translation would have made a difference in my reading experience, but I had a really hard time getting into this book. The descriptive passages were just too dense; the details in the writing overwhelmed me; and, I was waiting for something to happen (other than the inevitable political upheaval).As I

Edited 6/7/19: see last section4.5 stars... for me, no less than for her, the memory of things was much more important than the possession of them, and in comparison with that memory all possession, in itself, seemed just disappointing, delusive, flat, insufficient....The way I longed for the present to become the past at once, so that I could love it and gaze fondly at it any time...It was our vice, this: looking backward as we went ahead.(translated by William Weaver)The inner flap of this