Jan Kozma's translation of Marianna Sirca is the near-literal rendering of a novel written by Grazia Deledda (1871-1936), the celebrated Italian author from Sardinia who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1926. Almost all of Deledda's stories treat the lives, loves, tragedies, and triumphs of the author's native land--the remote, isolated, and often forbidding island of Sardinia. This new translation includes an introduction that highlights the salient episodes of Grazia Deledda's life and which situates Marianna Sirca both literarily within the author's opera omnia and as part of the general literary trends of the early European twentieth century. Jan Kozma presents the homonymous protagonist, Marianna Sirca, as one of the great literary precursors of the liberated, independent, modern woman--an ironic twist, given the repressive culture in which Marianna lives. The translator also provides numerous explanatory foot-notes that elucidate particular arcane aspects of Sardinian life in the late nineteenth century.
Sobre o autor(a)
Deledda, Grazia
Grazia Maria Cosima Deledda nasceu na cidade de Nuoro, na Sardenha, Itália, em 27 de setembro de 1871 e morreu em Roma, no dia 15 de agosto de 1936. Ela foi uma das mais importantes expressões literárias da Itália entre os séculos XIX e XX, a primeira (e, até o momento, a única) mulher italiana a ganhar o prêmio Nobel de Literatura, em 1926. Deledda deixou uma obra grandiosa: 32 romances, 250 contos e outras obras. Entre os seus escritos mais conhecidos estão os romances Juncos ao vento, Cinzas e Cosima. |