(0)
(0)
(0)
(0)
(0)Richard Howard
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 12 - AR Pts: 41
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Charterhouse of Parma tells the story of the young Italian nobleman Fabrice del Dongo and his adventures from his birth in 1798 to his death in 1829 (?). Fabrice’s early years are spent in his family’s castle on Lake Como, while most of the novel is set in a fictionalized Parma (both in modern-day Italy).
Author
Publisher
Hill and Wang, a division of Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
The day after his mother's death in 1977, Barthes began a diary of mourning. He reflected on the ebb and flow of sadness, and on modern society's quick dismissal of it. He provides a unique study of grief: intimate, deeply moving, and universal.