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The Dance of the Necklace
Paperback
Series: Italica Press Modern Italian Fiction
Classic FictionGeneral FictionLiterary Fiction
ISBN13: 9781599104492
Publisher: Italica Pr
Published: Mar 1 2023
Pages: 126
Weight: 0.37
Height: 0.30 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
In The Dance of the Necklace, Grazia Deledda moves away from the countryside of her native Sardinia to create a classically modern, urban narrative. Writing in a more spare, experimental style, she uncovers the vain anguish of our strongest passions: love, ambition, and the instinct to appear more than what we are.
A pearl necklace symbolizes the dance of jealousy, greed, and love, both erotic and familial, which unites and divides the three main characters: an aunt and her niece who share the same name and a young count seeking to regain his family's bartered string of pearls.
An innocent deception turns on itself to explore the nature of the double and the mask: two topoi of modernity. Like Virginia Woolf, Doris Lessing, and Annie Ernaux, Deledda delves into what it means to be a woman, alone and aging, living in a world where she is increasingly unwanted and invisible despite her lingering desires.
According to the critic Margherita Heyer-Caput, the novel is one of Deledda's most conscious and disquieting expressions of modernity. It challenges the labels often applied to this writer and overturns established critical categories to question margin-center hierarchies applied to her work. The Dance of the Necklace is a remarkable and rare example of Deledda's modernism.
First English translation of La Danza della Collana (1924).
Introduction, notes, bibliography.
124 pages.
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