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THE DANCE OF THE NECKLACE IBD

GRAZIA DELEDDA / MARTHA WITT / MARY ANN FRES
ITALICA PRESS, INC.
03 / 2023
9781599104492
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Sinopsis

InáThe Dance of the Necklace,áGrazia Deledda moves away from the countryside of her native Sardinia to create a classically modern, urban narrative. Writing in a more spare, experimental style, she uncovers the 'vain anguish of our strongest passions: love, ambition, and the instinct to appear more than what we are.'áA pearl necklaceásymbolizes the 'dance' of jealousy, greed, and love, both erotic and familial, which unites and divides the three main characters: an aunt and her niece who share the same name and a young count seeking to regain his familyâÇÖs bartered string of pearls.áAn innocent deceptionáturns on itself to explore the nature of the double and the mask: two topoi of modernity. Like Virginia Woolf, Doris Lessing, and Annie Ernaux, Deledda delves into what it means to be a woman, alone and aging, living in a world where she is increasingly unwanted and invisible despite her lingering desires.áAccording to the critic Margherita Heyer-Caput, the novel is one of DeleddaâÇÖs 'most conscious and disquieting expressions of modernity.' It challenges the labels often applied to this writer and overturns established critical categories to question margin-center hierarchies applied to her work.áThe Dance of the Necklace is a remarkable and rare example of DeleddaâÇÖs modernism.First English translationáofáLa Danza della Collana (1924).áIntroduction, notes, bibliography.124 pages.