Show I Italian Story One of Charm and Peeling Feeling Novel by Author of Gaval aval- aval leria lena Proves Talent of Verga By y SELMA MILLER For a colorful depiction and appreciation ap ap- ap predation of Italian domestic life lire nothing so o powerful has come t to the American public as Giovanni GiovanniI I Verga's Vergas Don Mastro Gesualdo translated by the well known au author author author au- au thor D. D II Lawrence Don Mastro Gesualdo takes on added value when it It Is known that its author Is the same same Verga who wrote the tho famous Cay alleria set to music by Mascagni Luigi writIng writIng writing writ- writ Ing In the International Book Review Review Re Rp- view places Verga on a level le with Dante and Ariosto and further declares l him Im to be bo the greatest Italian writer of oC narrative since the time of ot Manzoni Don Mastro Gesu Gesualdo Is 8 s the story of a Sicilian peasant who marries into a family noble though reduced d to poverty po The bride is so ao I poor she cannot even husband hust hus bus t band a dowe dowery but Don Gesualdo is eager for or the marriage nevertheless les less lesa Verga shows his true humanist touch In the reception Don Gesualdo gets from Ironi the brides bride's noble but pe penurious penurious penurious pe- pe relatives They laugh him to scorn upon eVer every possible occasion occasion occa occa- sion Elon because he ho is a n. horny fisted son of ot toll toil but never lose a a. chance of vIs visiting lUng his home on the pretext of seeing their noble relative but in reality to share the delectable viands viands vi viands vi- vi ands which Don Gesualdo's money mone can buy bu Poor Don Ge Gesualdo although the tha most prosperous one Inthe whole village Is at times made to a criminal and great Is the tho abuse everyone everone heaps upon him including his own brothers sisters and father He detects in his delicately bred wife a shrinking away at his advances and in his little daughter Isabelle Isabella he finds It in more marked degree She shudders when he kisses her and at boarding school where money is lavished upon her she grows to feel teel ashamed of ot him because he is of tho the working class What Charles Dickens Is to the depiction of intimate English life me so Verga is to Italian life lire The story of or Mastro-Don Mastro G Gesualdo whose whoso name Is an Irony itself meaning Workman Gentleman Gesualdo Is tho the story of this man manfrom from earl early manhood to death There are the attendant vicissitudes Incident Inci mci- dent to life For character delineation tion of ot the Italian tho the book has no peer Verga abandoned his Italian eloquence in Mastro l Gesual Don-Gesual- do The Tho literary style stylo Is close to the tho spoken language terse without un unnecessary phrases as rugged as asDon asDon Don Gesualdo himself Thomas Thomas Seltzer New KeW York |