Life Everlasting

by Ferdinando Camon, John Shepley (Translator)

Overview

Together with The Fifth Estate and Memorial, Life Everlasting belongs to a sequence of fictional memoirs which brilliantly evokes peasant society in the Veneto in northeast Italy. It was into that ageless traditional society that Camon himself was born, and it is its disappearance in our own time that this trilogy relates.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780910395328
Publisher:	Northwestern University Press
Publication date:	05/01/1995
Edition description:	1
Pages:	189
Product dimensions:	5.25(w) x 8.25(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Ferdinando Camon (born in Montagnana 1935) is a contemporary Italian writer. He is married to a journalist and has two sons: Alessandro Camon, a film producer/writer who lives in Los Angeles, and Alberto, who teaches criminal procedure and lives in Bologna. He has contributed to a number of Italian and foreign daily newspapers, including La Stampa, l'Unità, Avvenire, Le Monde and La Nación. Perhaps Camon's best known work in English is his trilogy of fictional memoirs consisting of The Fifth Estate (Il Quinto Stato), Life Everlasting (La Vita Eterna), and Memorial (Un altare per la madre).

Table of Contents

Preface to the American edition

Part One
1. God's signature
2. The Crua women

Part Two
1. The she-man
2. Provisional life
3. A soldier's pay
4. The white friars
5. The walled-up scorpion
6. Love and slaughter
7. Thirty thousand slaves
8. The exercise of power
9. Half-starved bitches
10. The Americans

Part Three
1. The invention of money
2. The Stone Age
3. The Industrial Age
4. Messengers of the storm
5. Life everlasting

Author's note

Editorial Reviews

"In this volume, as in [The Fifth Estate], Camon, a native son of the Veneto peasants he memorializes, movingly portrays the anonymous victims for whom he feels a filial and fraternal love, a people here consecrated and lamented."
—Publishers Weekly


"A writer of such importance that one does not know where or with whom to place him in the literature of our time."

—Le Monde des livres

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