On the Historical Novel(English, Paperback, Manzoni Alessandro)

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On the Historical Novel(English, Paperback, Manzoni Alessandro) is written by Manzoni Alessandro and published by University of Nebraska Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0803282265 (ISBN 10) and 9780803282261 (ISBN 13).

Alessandro Manzoni was a giant of nineteenth-century European literature whose I promessi sposi (The Betrothed, 1928) is ranked with War and Peace as marking the summit of the historical novel. Manzoni wrote "Del romanzo storico" ("On the Historical Novel") during the twenty years he spent revising I promessi sposi. This first English translation of On the Historical Novel reflects the insights of a great craftsman and the misgivings of a profound thinker. It brings up to the nineteenth century the long war between poetry and history, tracing the idea of the historical novel from its origins in classical antiquity. It declares the historical novel-and presumably I promessi sposi itself-dead as a genre. Or perhaps it justifies I promessi sposi as the climax of a genre and the end of a stage of human consciousness. Its importance lies both in its prospective and in its retrospective contributions to literary debate.