Oh, Serafina! : A Fable of Ecology, Lunacy, and Love Hardback
by Giuseppe Berto
Part of the Other Voices of Italy series
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Heir to the FIBA button factory in Lombardy, Augustus is profiting from Italy’s postwar industrial boom.
Yet the dreamy young man is far from your stereotypical industrialist.
He is less interested in making money than in talking to the birds in the surrounding garden and in making love to a beautiful factory worker named Palmira.
But when the money-hungry Palmira schemes to have him institutionalized, Augustus finds a new love among his fellow mental patients: flute-playing flower child Serafina.
Can Augustus and Serafina find a way to break free and express their love of each other and of nature in this crazy world? Newly translated into English, Giuseppe Berto’s charming 1973 novel Oh, Serafina! was one of the first works of Italian literature to deal with ecological themes while also questioning the destructive effects of industrial capitalism, the many forms spirituality might take, and the ways our society defines madness.
This translation includes a foreword from literary scholar Matteo Gilebbi that provides biographical, historical, and philosophical context for appreciating this whimsical fable of ecology, lunacy, and love.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:140 pages, n-a
- Publisher:Rutgers University Press
- Publication Date:05/09/2023
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- ISBN:9781978835757
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:140 pages, n-a
- Publisher:Rutgers University Press
- Publication Date:05/09/2023
- Category:
- ISBN:9781978835757
