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Le Amanti

1894

Matilde Serao

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Le Amanti

Matilde Serao

1894

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Matilde Serao, the celebrated Italian journalist and novelist, crafted this intense 1894 novel about the consuming, dangerous terrain of forbidden love. Grazia waits in her small room for the absent Ferrante, her longing veering between feverish passion and crippling anxiety, while Ferrante carries the weight of a tortured past that makes connection nearly impossible. Theirs is a love shadowed by societal condemnation and the terror of exposure, each rendered more vulnerable by the other's absence. Through their story, Serao examines what happens when desire collides with respectability: the physical sensations of warmth that elude the lonely, the way hope and despair alternate like heartbeat and arrest. The novel doesn't offer easy redemption or simple passion it is interested in the complicated, often painful architecture of longing itself, in how love can both save and destroy. For readers who appreciate psychological depth and the particular ache of 19th-century Italian realism, Serao delivers a portrait of desire as both illumination and ruin.

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“LA GRANDE FIAMMA”

— Matilde Serao

“l'impetuoso torrente di quel calore ed ella sentiva tutte le sue piccole vene palpitare nella fiamma che le dilatava. Lo scoppio della passione lungamente represso, in quel generoso organismo, assumeva la forma di febbre ad altissima temperatura: ed essa,””

— Matilde Serao

“sguardo sospettoso fin le fantastiche penombre della sua stanza solitaria, dove sola vivente era una pia lampada consumantesi innanzi a una sacra immagine, prosciolto il suo spirito dall'obbligo della bugia e le sue labbra dall'obbligo del sorriso, ella si lasciava abbruciare dalla grande fiamma. Immobile, con le palpebre socchiuse e le mani abbandonate lungo il corpo, ritta come un bianco fantasma nel mezzo della sua stanza, sentiva un flusso di calore salire alle guancie delicatamente brune e smorte, un flusso di calore vivificarle il cervello, un'onda di lacrime calde pungerle i bellissimi grandi occhi bruni. Scorrevano taciturnamente, senza singhiozzi, le lacrime calde sulle guancie e le avvampanti guancie se le ribevevano: dal cuore e dal cervello che ardevano, si diffondeva per tutta la persona l'impetuoso torrente di quel calore ed ella sentiva tutte le sue piccole vene palpitare nella fiamma che le dilatava. Lo scoppio della passione lungamente represso, in quel generoso organismo, assumeva la forma di febbre ad altissima temperatura: ed essa, vacillante, come se avesse smarrito il senso di ogni altra cosa che la sua febbre non fosse, si lasciava cadere sul letto, rigida,””

— Matilde Serao

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