(1839-1869)
(From an autobiographical sketch sent to the editors of the Gazzettino Rosa).
Translation (c) 1992 Lawrence Venuti
I Promessi Sposi
(The Betrothed)
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| IGINIO UGO TARCHETTI (1839-1869) |
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| "I would like to be a hyena, thrusting my way into graves, feeding on the bones of the dead. In this world, I see only skulls, thighbones. If a woman kisses me, I feel nothing but cold; if she smiles at me, I see her teeth moving gumless, threatening to fall from her mouth; if she embraces me, I have only the sensation of a body clinging and heavy like clay. In the darkness, my lover would seem to me a corpse rising through some effect of magnetism, like Galvan's frog, destined to drop abruptly under its own dead weight." (From an autobiographical sketch sent to the editors of the Gazzettino Rosa). Translation (c) 1992 Lawrence Venuti |
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| TARCHETTI RELATED LINKS | ||||||||||||||||||
| Nice Italian site | ||||||||||||||||||
| Racconti Gotici | ||||||||||||||||||
| STORIES | ||||||||||||||||||
| The Legends of the Black Castle | ||||||||||||||||||
| SITES OF INTEREST | ||||||||||||||||||
| Links on Italian Romantic, Alessandro Manzoni | ||||||||||||||||||
| Manzoni's classic novel, I Promessi Sposi (The Betrothed) |
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