Quartet
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A good fit for
- Readers with Italian reading ability who want to engage with nineteenth-century Italian literature
- Students and researchers of Italian literature or intellectual history who need public-domain original texts
- Readers who enjoy conceptual dialogue and debate among characters and do not require a strong plot
Not a good fit for
- Readers without Italian who need a Chinese translation
- Beginners seeking an edition with detailed notes and an introduction
- General readers who prefer light, entertaining fiction
Reading tips
- Read one chapter first to get used to the language style, then go chapter by chapter to sort out character relationships and main arguments.
- Read alongside background material on nineteenth-century Italian literature and intellectual history to understand the work's context of debate.
- Use the search and annotation functions of the electronic edition to record thematic threads, and review and organize them after finishing.
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About the author
Alfredo Oriani (1852–1909) was an Italian novelist, historian and social critic, born in Faenza in 1852 and died in Casola Valsenio in 1909. His writing spanned the novel, history and political commentary. Thirteen of his works are held in this collection, including the multi-volume La lotta politica in Italia, the two volumes of Il Nemico, and works such as La disfatta, Olocausto, No: Romanzo and Al di là: romanzo. His novels often concern the entanglement of individual lives with historical change, while his historical and political writings trace the course of Italian political life, and his thought carries a nationalist tinge. Public information is limited and few details of his life survive, yet his extant works show that he holds a place in Italian literary and intellectual history, with wide-ranging subjects and a style that combines narrative with argument.
