Nostalgia
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Description
Grazia Deledda wrote Nostalgia, translated by Helen Hester Colvill and published in London in 1905. Deledda, author of Cenere, sets her preface as a letter to her husband. A young lady called Regina visits their Rome rooms and speaks of her own homesickness. Regina calls nostalgia a passion that can drive one mad if ungratified.
Deledda answers that her own longing for Sardinia has been harmless, since work fills her days. Regina replies that all existence is one long chain of nostalgia, for what is lost and what can never be attained. The novel grows from that seed: a woman in Rome torn between her new life and the island home that made her.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Unknown |
|---|---|
| COLLECTION | BOOKS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 427 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | Public Domain |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |
| SOURCE | Project Gutenberg |