Prefazione

FLORIS, GONARIA

2007-01-01

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Abstract

The research work aims to reconstruct the composition genesis of the text in order to focus on Deledda’s approaching the so called “Sardinian novel” after the sentimental manner of her first novels and tales. The analysis of the plot and of the narrative texture highlights hence the disarmonic but fervid effort of the author in representing the island in its diverse social classes, putting together her enthousiasm as a neophyt toward Popular traditions with a romantic corteous and bourgeois of the “distant love”. The magic and adventure of the treasure theme binds the two aspects, which seem to stem directly from Balzac’s adventurous journey to Sardinia.