Cosima (Italian Edition)

Grazia Deledda Born in Nuoro, into a bourgeois family, September 27, 1871. She was a Italian writer whose works won her the Nobel Prize for Literature for 1926. She died in Rome at the age of 64, August 15, 1936.
Deledda's whole work is based on strong facts of love, pain and death upon which rests the feeling of sin and of an inevitable fatality.
In her works we can recognize the influence of the verism of Giovanni Verga and, sometimes, also that of the decadentism by Gabriele D'Annunzio.
In Deledda's novels there is always a strong connection between places and people, feelings and environment. Her work has been highly regarded by Luigi Capuana and Giovanni Verga. The environment depicted is that one harsh of native Sardinia, but it is not depicted according to regional veristic schemes neither according to the otherworldly vision by D'Annunzio, but relived through the myth.
"Cosima", based on Deledda’s own life, tells the story of an aspiring writer growing up in Sardinia during the last decades of the nineteenth century when formal education for women was rare and literary careers unheard-of. "Cosima" describes the struggle against the dismay and disapproval of her family and friends at her creative ambitions. Yet it also reads like a charming fable with details of family life, rural traditions and wild bandits, and it is as much a novel of memory as of character or action.
In the book, a biography of the author.

Maria Grazia Cosima Deledda è nata a Nuoro, penultima di sei figli, in una famiglia benestante, il 27 settembre 1871. E’ stata la seconda donna a vincere il Premio Nobel per la letteratura, nel 1926. Morirà a Roma, all'età di 64 anni, il 15 agosto 1936.
Il romanzo "Cosima" è basato sulla vita della stessa Deledda. Racconta la storia di una giovane donna, aspirante scrittrice, che cresce nella Sardegna della fine del XIX secolo, quando l'istruzione per le donne era rara e una carriera letteraria addirittura inaudita. "Cosima" descrive la lotta contro lo sgomento e la disapprovazione della sua famiglia e delle amiche verso le sue ambizioni creative. Ma si legge anche come una favola affascinante con i dettagli della vita familiare, le tradizioni rurali, il banditismo, tanto come un romanzo della memoria che di formazione o d'azione.
Nel libro la biografia dell'auttice ed una nota sulla sua poetica.