ITAL 218 - Giorgio Bassani’s The Garden of the Finzi-Contini’s

Semester Offered: Fall
1 unit(s)

Giorgio Bassani’s The Garden of the Finzi-Contini’s. Bassani’s novel is the story of the decadence of a Jewish family, from the proclamation of the Mussolini’s Racial Laws in 1938, to the deportation of Italian Jews to Nazi death-camps in 1943, to the present of the narrator some 15 years later. Through social, historical, intellectual contextualizations, we engage in extensive linguistic, literary, and aesthetic analysis. Particular attention is devoted to the development of oral and written skills. Individual and group multi-media projects. Ms. Antognini.

Prerequisite(s): ITAL 206, ITAL 217 or permission of the instructor.

Two 75-minute periods.