Behind the door /
Bassani, Giorgio, 1916-2000.
Behind the door / Giorgio Bassani ; translated by William Weaver. - New York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1976, c1972. - 150 p. ; 19 cm. - Harbrace paperbound library ; HPL 66 .
Translation of Dietro la porta. "A Harvest/HBJ book" "A Helen and Kurt Wolff book."
A sheltered sixteen-year-old Jewish boy in Ferrara reflects on a critical period of his schooldays in 1929-1930. He makes friends with the leader of the class, a boy with the right looks and the right religion, and with a new boy who joins the class--another "outsider". While the young Jew is shy and naive, the newcomer is aggressive, cynical, sexually unihibited. Bassani subtly explores the relations of the three boys, as events lead to a shattering betrayal of trust.
0156116855 9780156116855
75029308
Jews--Italy--Fiction.
Ferrara (Italy)--Fiction.
Psychological fiction.
PQ4807.A79 / D5413 1976
853/.914
Behind the door / Giorgio Bassani ; translated by William Weaver. - New York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1976, c1972. - 150 p. ; 19 cm. - Harbrace paperbound library ; HPL 66 .
Translation of Dietro la porta. "A Harvest/HBJ book" "A Helen and Kurt Wolff book."
A sheltered sixteen-year-old Jewish boy in Ferrara reflects on a critical period of his schooldays in 1929-1930. He makes friends with the leader of the class, a boy with the right looks and the right religion, and with a new boy who joins the class--another "outsider". While the young Jew is shy and naive, the newcomer is aggressive, cynical, sexually unihibited. Bassani subtly explores the relations of the three boys, as events lead to a shattering betrayal of trust.
0156116855 9780156116855
75029308
Jews--Italy--Fiction.
Ferrara (Italy)--Fiction.
Psychological fiction.
PQ4807.A79 / D5413 1976
853/.914