Khāndān-i Mālāvilīyā: Persian 1403

In The House by the Sea (1881) Verga immerses himself in the local reality of a Sicilian town, Aci Trezza, and recounts the simple and quarrelsome daily life in which the Toscanos, known as the Malavoglia, live. Feeling that bourgeois realities were not very expressive, Verga tries to break the classical novelistic structure, reinventing the rules of the narrative game to give space to the chorality of the characters, portrayed in their vital specificity. This edition highlights the history and formation of the text through the author's subsequent projects and drafts. The extensive footnote commentary, in addition to literal explanations and intertextual notations, underlines the organization of the sequences and the function of the motifs, identifies the main voices of the novel and the internal counterpoints, and provides the elements for understanding the mechanisms of the narrative machine.