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Pasquale Stiso's "True Story" and Other Works: A Critical Introduction and Bilingual Edition

Pasquale Stiso's "True Story" and Other Works: A Critical Introduction and Bilingual Edition

Ruberto, Laura E.
Verdicchio, Pasquale
Stiso, Pasquale

Paperback

Series: Robert Viscusi Essay, Book 4

General FictionLiterary Fiction

Publisher Price: $12.00

ISBN10: 1599541831
ISBN13: 9781599541839
Publisher: Bordighera Press
Published: Dec 14 2021
Pages: 108
Weight: 0.27
Height: 0.26 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English

In bringing the 'cautionary' tale of Pasquale Stiso and his elegiac musings to a new audience, Ruberto and Verdicchio perform a generous and necessary act of cultural anthropology, reinvigorating an historical memory in danger of succumbing to amnesia. Stiso's life, death, and writings challenged two enduring myths: the nostalgia of a glorious and fecund patria left behind and the seduction of a land with 'streets paved in gold.' Hope tempered by despair; deceit rebuffed by compassion; this is a tale told by an 'immigrant' who never left Italy. A small, shining tessera in the tragi-comic mosaic of the Italian diaspora.

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