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Article: Growing up Jewish in Ferrara: the fiction of Giorgio Bassani, a personal recollection.(From All Their Habitations)
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- June 22, 2004
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GIORGIO BASSANI'S FERRARA MAY BE, AS AN AMERICAN critic has called it, a "semiotic labyrinth," but it is no doubt a very faithful representation of this city, of its history and topography. Actually, the success of his works, especially of his Giardino dei Finzi Contini (The Garden of the Finzi Continis), a novel that remained for years at the top of the best-sellers list, and in this country the even bigger success of the Oscar winning movie adapted from that novel and directed by Vittorio De Sica--a movie Bassani was never happy with--did succeed in putting Ferrara on the map for thousands of international tourists, who happily flocked to Ferrara in order to look at the ...
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