Five stories of Ferrara.

Giorgio Bassani

Original title: Five stories of Ferrara

first published 1971 Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1971 203 pages

The main theme of Giorgio Bassani's novels and short stories, which have earned him wide acclaim outside Italy, has been the advent of anti-Semitism in the provincial Italian city of Ferrara during World War II. Earlier he had a successful career as an editor with a major publishing house, being credited with helping to bring to public notice The Leopard by Tomasi Lampedusa. Bassani edited a literary magazine and was...

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