Novel of Ferrara Alexandra Brodsky In the chilly darkness of

In the chilly darkness of a Boston server farm

a poet for the ages

and lesbianism in literature

- Is mandatory celibacy biblical

first kisses

Novel of Ferrara Alexandra Brodsky In the chilly darkness ofAmong the masters of twentieth century literature, Giorgio Bassani and his Northern Italian hometown of Ferrara "are as inseparable as James Joyce and Dublin or Italo Svevo and Trieste" (from the Introduction). Now published in English for the first time as the unified masterwork Bassani intended, The Novel of Ferrara brings together Bassani's six classics, fully revised by the author at the end of his life: Within the Walls, The Gold Rimmed