Giorgio Bassani
Italian author whose linked stories and novels set in the Jewish community of Ferrara constitute a moving elegy for a world destroyed by fascism and the Holocaust. The Garden of the Finzi-Continis is his masterpiece.
Works
- The Garden of the Finzi-ContinisNovel about an Italian Jewish family's doomed attempt to escape persecution
- The Gold-Rimmed SpectaclesNovella exploring desire, masculinity, and social prejudice in small-town Italy
- Five Stories of Ferrara
- The HeronNovel depicting a man's existential crisis and withdrawal from society
- Behind the Door