Giorgio Bassani was born in 1916. From 1938 onwards he became
involved in various anti-fascist activities for which he was
imprisoned in 1943. His works include The Gold-Rimmed Spectacles,
and Five Stories of Ferrara (Within the Walls), which won the
Strega Prize. The Garden of the Finzi-Continis was awarded the
Viareggio Prize in 1962 and was made into a feature film.
William Weaver was an award-winning poet and translator. He died in
2013.
“Giorgio Bassani is one of the great witnesses of this century, and
one of its great artists.” –The Guardian
“Curiously haunting and poetic . . . Like Proust, a novelist to
whom he is inevitably compared, Bassani is a specialist in
decadence and nostalgia.” –Christian Science Monitor
“Bassani looms large in the Italian literary scene . . . [The
Garden of the Finzi-Continis] is an honest book, and tells with a
kind of probing tenderness a true story of sensitive and vulnerable
youth in a somber decade.” –Saturday Review
“The Garden of the Finzi-Continis is first and foremost a love
story and on quite a different level from anything else Bassani
wrote . . . Beneath every other theme and concern, and whether or
not prompted by the political situation, the question [the novel]
quite explicitly ask[s] is:
what does it mean to have lived?” –from the new Introduction by Tim
Parks
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