The Fires Within. Grazia Deledda 1871-1936 - ACE230.5

Deledda writing; her best-known works appeared in the 1890s, Anime Oneste (1894) and La Via del Male (1896). Though invited to Rome, her family affairs and the difficulties of travelling prevented her from going. Deledda went to Cagliari by train. Photograph of town centre. Deledda walking in the public gardens. Her words describing the town heard over. Photograph of her future husband, Palmiro Madesani. Deledda on the beach. Her words talking about visiting Italy. Photographs of Rome where she moved after marriage. Commentary says that, Regina, the heroine of her novel Nostalgie (1905) find the capital a disappointment. Extract read over film of Rome. Photographs of Deledda’s house in Rome and of Deledda with her family. Her words from radio interview read over. Men playing "rock paper scissors". Photograph of men in café. Commentary says that Deledda’s popularity was resented by some male Italian authors. Photographs. Deledda writing. Books written between 1900 and 1909 include Dopo il Divorzio (1902), Elias Portolu (1902), Nostalgie (1905), and Cenere (1903), all tragic best-sellers. Poster for film of Cenere (1916), starring Eleonora Duse; extract from film with mother finding her son again. Extract from story read over. Carving a wooden mask. Commentary talks about her short stories being published in Il Corriere della Sera and talks about her style, characters and descriptions which often seem stereotyped or mask-like.