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Cassola - Bebo's girlfriend [1960]


Mara è una giovane di Monteguidi, piccolo paese della Val d'Elsa, che all'indomani Liberation knows the partisan Bebo, hero of the Resistance, and falls in love. These, returned to civilian life filled with precepts of violence and revenge, has committed a crime and, after a period in hiding, was captured and sentenced to fourteen years in prison. Mara, gained thanks to the strength of feeling for Bebo and has now become a woman decides to wait for true love with a spirit and stubborn. With this novel - published in 1960 and followed in 1963 by a famous film version starring Claudia Cardinale - Cassola won the Strega Prize, reaching international success. "Bebo's Girl" marks a profound break in the narrative of postwar Italian: Although inspired by a real story occurred, the novel is enhanced by overcoming the psychological elements and lyrical neorealist instances, both the language and for the rejection of ideological dogmatism. "The novel argues Cassola" comes before any interpretation of reality, is the continuous search for the truth of men. "

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