Luigi Capuana
1839–1915
Biography
Luigi Capuana was an Italian writer, journalist, literary critic and playwright. He was born in Mineo, in Sicily, in 1839 and died in Catania in 1915. He twice served as mayor of his home town. Later he lived for a time in Florence, Milan and Rome, and after returning to Sicily he taught at the University of Catania.
He is remembered above all as the chief theorist of verismo, the Italian realist school of fiction that took its lead from French naturalism. Capuana studied Émile Zola closely and was among the first Italians to take Zola's ideas seriously. His near contemporary Giovanni Verga was born in the same part of Sicily only a year or so away from him. Capuana's idea was that a novel should work like a careful case study of rural and regional life, looking at the minds of its characters in a detached manner.
His best-known novel is Il marchese di Roccaverdina, published in 1901. He also wrote many short stories and fairy tales, essays on literature and a number of plays. The site holds his Fausto Bragia, e altre novelle, a collection of stories, and it lets readers see the fiction that stood behind his critical theories.
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Books
Fausto Bragia, e altre novelle
by Luigi Capuana
The title story follows Fausto Bragia through the sleepless night after a long-desired love affair begins, and through what it costs him. Eleven more stories by a master of Italian verismo range from comedy, as in the May Day of Doctor Piccottini, to secret dramas and an…
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