Bibliograph

The house on Via Gemito, a novel, Domenico Starnone ; translated from the Italian by Oonagh Stransky

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The house on Via Gemito, a novel, Domenico Starnone ; translated from the Italian by Oonagh Stransky

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

The house on Via Gemito

Oclc number

513527

Responsibility statement

Domenico Starnone ; translated from the Italian by Oonagh Stransky

Sub title

a novel

Summary

A modest apartment in Via Gemito smelling of paint and turpentine. Its furniture pushed up against the wall to create a make-shift studio. Drying canvases moved from bed to floor each night. Fede̕r, the father, a railway clerk, is convinced that he possesses great artistic promise. If it weren't for the family he must feed and the jealousy of his fellow Neapolitan artists, nothing would stop him from becoming a world-famous painter. Ambitious and frustrated, genuinely talented but also arrogant and resentful, Fede̕r is scarred by constant disappointment. He is a larger-than-life character, a liar, a fabulist, and his fantasies shape the lives of those around him, especially his young son, Mimi, short for Domenico, who will spend a lifetime trying to get out from under his father's shadow

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