Capuana was a prolific writer whose works translated into English include: Cardello, The Marquis of Roccaverdina and Sicilian Tales – Once Upon a Time. As their adventures and turns of fortune unfold, we are thrust into the characters’ small village world and Capuana’s detailed canvas brings to life characters humorous, heart warming and tragic.Īlthough written as a children’s story, Capuana’s portrayals make Il Drago thoroughly enjoyable for adults as well. an extended fairy tale, and Cardello (1907), the story of a marionette theatre. But everything is turned upside down when he meets two orphans on a village road and despite himself Don Paolo must come to terms with their entry into his life. Capuana, Luigi (18391915) Italian writer, dramatist, and journalist. The central character is Don Paolo Drago, “dragon by name, dragon by nature” who is embittered by tragedies which, in the space of a few months, robbed him of his family and left him alone in the world. At the same time, he populates his story with fairytale creatures. Set in rural Sicily at the end of the nineteenth century, it is a world that Capuana knows well, for he comes from it. The story, although fiction, is gritty in its realism. Preview and download books by Luigi Capuana, including 19 Library of the Worlds Best Mystery and Detective Stories, Il Benefattore. Read 'Cardello' by Luigi Capuana available from Rakuten Kobo.
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