''Assandira'' is a novel by
Giulio Angioni
Giulio Angioni (28 October 1939 – 12 January 2017) was an Italian writer and anthropologist.
Biography
Angioni was a leading Italian anthropologist, professor at the University of Cagliari and fellow of St Antony's College of the University o ...
, published in 2004 by
Sellerio.
Summary
The old Sardinian shepherd Costantino Saru has been persuaded by his son and his Danish daughter in law to establish a hotel restaurant (called ''Assandira'') in his abandoned barn. The characteristic of the company should be to offer European customers, especially from the north, an experience of life in the traditional pastoral world of Sardinia, where the old shepherd Costantino should be a kind of guarantor of authenticity. The company thrives and even Costantino feels at ease playing the part of the ancient Mediterranean shepherd. But one day a fire destroys Assandira, kills his son and causes abortion of her daughter in law. Costantino feels responsible and confesses to the investigator. The reason for his self-attribution of responsibility is not clear to the judge, who does not believe in such a self-incrimination, since his sharing the very idea of reliving the past in order to entertain the tourists.
[F. Manai, 2006, cit., 233-246]
Editions
* 2004,
* 2012 eBook,
See also
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Sardinian Literary Spring Sardinian Literary Spring is a definition of the whole body of the literature produced in Sardinia from around the 1980s onwards.
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Giulio Angioni
Giulio Angioni (28 October 1939 – 12 January 2017) was an Italian writer and anthropologist.
Biography
Angioni was a leading Italian anthropologist, professor at the University of Cagliari and fellow of St Antony's College of the University o ...
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Sa Laurera
Notes
Sources
* E. Hall, ''Greek tragedy and the politics of subjectivity in recent fiction'', "Classical Receptions Journal", 1 (1), 23-42,
Oxford University Press
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, 2009.
* G. Pias, ''La casa della palma e Assandira: due "gialli" sulla memoria e l'identità'', in Sabina Gola e Laura Rorato (cura), ''La forma del passato. Questioni di identità in opere letterarie e cinematografiche italiane a partire dagli ultimi anni Ottanta'', Bruxelles, Bern, Berlin, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Oxford, Wien, Peter Lang, 2007, 261-274. {{ISBN, 978-90-5201-318-3.
* H. Klüver, ''Gebrauchsanweisungen für Sardinien'', München, Piper Verlag, 2012, 194-212.
* F. Manai, ''Cosa succede a Fraus? Sardegna e mondo nel racconto di Giulio Angioni'', Cagliari, CUEC, 2006.
* B. Wagner, ''Sardinien, Insel im Dialog. Texte, Diskurse, Filme'', Tübingen, Francke Verlag, 2008.
External links
* Podcast 'Assandira' Fahrenhei
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Sardinia in fiction
2004 Italian novels
Novels set in Italy