Profumo

Name: Profumo
Author: Luigi Capuana

by Luigi Capuana

Italian novella exploring scent, memory, and desire in psychological narrative

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Luigi Capuana

Italian author and literary critic who was the chief theorist and practitioner of verismo alongside Giovanni Verga. His supernatural stories and realistic novels of Sicilian life were enormously influential.

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