{"product_id":"graziella-9781517902483","title":"Graziella","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn its first modern translation, a novel-cum-memoir of a Frenchman's erotic awakening in Italy by a preeminent writer of the Romantic period \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cbr\u003e In 1812 Alphonse de Lamartine, a young man of means, traveled through southern Italy, where, during a sojourn in Naples, he fell in love with a young woman who worked in a cigar factory--and whose death after he returned to France would haunt him throughout his writing life. Graziella, Lamartine called this lost girl in his poetry and memoirs--and also in \u003ci\u003eGraziella\u003c\/i\u003e, a novel that closely follows the story of his own romance.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"When I was eighteen,\" the narrator begins, as if penning his memoir, \"my family entrusted me to the care of a relative whose business affairs called her to Tuscany.\" The tale that unfolds, of the young man's amorous experiences amid the natural grandeur and subtle splendors of the Italian countryside, is one of the finest works of fiction in the French Romantic tradition, a bildungsroman that is also a melancholy portrait of the artist as a young man discovering the muse who would both inspire and elude him.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRemarkable for its contemplative prose, its dreamy passions and seductive drawing of the Italian landscape, and its place in the Romantic canon, \u003ci\u003eGraziella\u003c\/i\u003e is a timeless portrait of love, chronicling the remorse and the misguided ideals of youth that find their expression, if not their amends, in art.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Minnesota Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/13\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781517902483\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 168\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.50lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.90h x 5.00w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/01\/2018\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Alphonse de Lamartine","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52210045255861,"sku":"9781517902483","price":14.41,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_1a6170e4-821c-4978-bfc6-f80b5935e410.jpg?v=1770132212","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/graziella-9781517902483","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}