Fu una sera dell'aprile scorso che il possidente Davide D'Elia, tornandosene in calesse da una sua fattoria, credette di vedere in mezzo alla strada un agnellino sperduto: guardando meglio si accorse che era un bambino, avvolto in una vecchia sciarpa di pelo nero; così piccolo che al sopraggiungere del veicolo non si mosse neppure, tanto che il cavallo stesso, non facendo a tempo a scansarsi, si fermò di botto.
Davide però non era un uomo curioso, né si turbava facilmente: adesso poi, dopo la morte in guerra del suo unico figlio diciottenne, era diventato ancor più duro, col cuore arso da una invincibile ira contro Dio e contro gli uomini. Pensò che il bambino lo avesse deposto lì qualch...
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Höhe: 220 mm
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979-10-418-4078-6 (9791041840786)
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Deledda was born in Nuoro, Sardinia, into a middle-class family, to Giovanni Antonio Deledda and Francesca Cambosu, as the fourth of seven siblings. She attended elementary school (the minimum required at the time) and was then educated by a private tutor (a guest of one of her relatives) and moved on to study literature on her own. It was during this time that she started displaying an interest in writing short novels, mostly inspired by the life of Sardinian peasants and their struggles. Her teacher encouraged her to submit her writing to a newspaper and, at age 13, her first story was published in a local journal. Some of Deledda's early works were published in the fashion magazine L'ultima moda between 1888 and 1889. In 1890 Trevisani published Nell'azzurro (Into the Blue), her first collection of short stories. Deledda's main focus was the representation of poverty and the struggles associated with it through a combination of imaginary and autobiographical elements. Her family wasn't particularly supportive of her desire to write.
