
handle: 11573/1762011
The volume traces the artistic biography of Grazia Deledda, the first Italian woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1926. Her literary output—the result of an innate vocation for writing—demonstrates a steady evolution from her early, conventional, and inexpert attempts toward an extensive corpus of short stories and novels. Her work is characterized by a poetics deeply attuned to themes of guilt, remorse, and the inevitability of fate, offering an intense and empathetic portrayal of the human condition. A profoundly modern author, Deledda developed a transgressive body of work that stands outside traditional canons and remains difficult to categorize within the literary movements of her time. Furthermore, she established herself as a true professional writer, acutely aware of the inner workings of the emerging cultural industry, as evidenced by her extensive correspondence with publishers, translators, and the leading intellectuals of her era.
Il volume ripercorre la biografia artistica di Grazia Deledda, prima donna italiana a ricevere il premio Nobel per la letteratura, nel 1926. La sua produzione – frutto di un’innata vocazione alla scrittura – rappresenta un crescendo, dalle prime prove, inesperte e convenzionali, verso un ampio corpus di racconti e di romanzi, frutto di una poetica attenta ai temi della colpa, del rimorso e dell’ineluttabilità del destino, raffigurazione intensa e partecipata alla condizione umana. Autrice di grande modernità, creatrice di una produzione eslege, al di fuori dei canoni e, perciò, difficile da inquadrare in uno qualsiasi dei movimenti letterari a lei contemporanei, diviene una vera e propria scrittrice professionista, consapevole dei funzionamenti tutti della nascente industria culturale, come dimostra l’ampia corrispondenza con editori, traduttori e intellettuali del suo tempo.
Grazia Deledda; letteratura italiana; letteratura italiana contemporanea; romanzo del novecento
Grazia Deledda; letteratura italiana; letteratura italiana contemporanea; romanzo del novecento
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