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Grazia Deledda

Nostalgia

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Quotes

  • Talia Garzahas quoted10 months ago
    where the tourist has hardly penetrated. But Signora Deledda now lives in Rome, and true to her method she observes and describes the things and places about her, the people among whom her lot is cast.
  • Talia Garzahas quoted10 months ago
    She is a Sardinian, and most of her books have been about her native island, the simple folk, and quiet histories of a forgotten corner
  • Talia Garzahas quoted10 months ago
    The humble translator has his function. If he can succeed in giving any of his author's spirit, he may interest his reader enough to send him to the original itself next time;—in which case the translator will have done a worthy deed, and the author will perhaps forgive a certain mangling of his ideas, spoiling of his best passages and general rubbing of the bloom from his peach, inevitable in a process scarce easier than changing the skin of an Ethiopian or repainting the spots of a leopard.

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