The house on Via Gemito
Starnone, Domenico, 1943-2023
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The modest apartment in Via Gemito smells of paint and white spirit. The living room furniture is pushed up against the wall to create a make-shift studio, and drying canvases must be moved off the beds each night. Federí, the father, a railway clerk, is convinced of possessing great artistic talent. If he didn't have a family to feed, he'd be a world-famous painter. Ambitious and frustrated, genuinely talented but full of arrogance and resentment, his life is marked by bitter disappointment. His long-suffering wife and their four sons bear the brunt. It's his first-born who, years later, will sift the lies from the truth to tell the story of a man he spent his whole life trying not to resemble. Narrated against the background of a Naples still marked by WWII and steeped in the city's language and imagery, 'The House on Via Gemito' is a masterpiece of contemporary Italian literature.
Main title:
The house on Via Gemito / Domenico Starnone ; translated by Oonagh Stransky.
Author:
Starnone, Domenico, 1943-, authorStransky, Oonagh, translator
Imprint:
London : Europa Editions, 2023.
Collation:
480 pages ; 21 cm
Notes:
Translated from the Italian.
ISBN:
9781787704534 (pbk)
Dewey class:
853.92
Language:
EnglishItalian
BRN:
3614952