ITA310H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Sicilian Language, Italian Unification, Vicia Faba
Document Summary
This novel was part of a project: larger series of novels. Repressed different social and economic levels of society in an ascending order. Mission in which he outlines his poetics about his approaches in writing that story. His vision about his sees social and economic progress in societies at large. This entire series of books was cycle supposed to be the called the cycle of the vanquished. He sets himself as a writer, the subject of his writings, and sets himself up an outline and takes an scientific approach to writing, looking at the different elements of reality. Intention that he is almost removed from the process he is going to observe and write, and write in terms of what he objectively observes. Raw reality has to show its true, in the way the characters are reflected. Verga represents characters that speak the language in a certain way, a dialect or accent.
