Author: Giorgio Bassani

Cites

• Simone Weil (1)
  • IN: The Smell of Hay (1972) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: One can only offer one's self. Otherwise, everything one calls offering is nothing but a label put on the self's retaliation.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, France
• Arthur Rimbaud (1)
  • IN: The Heron (1968) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Elle est retrowee. Quoi? L'eternite.
    FROM: "L'eternite", (1872), Poem, France
• Alessandro Manzoni (1)
  • IN: The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (1962) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: The heart, to be sure, always has something to say about what is to come, to him who heeds it. But what does the heart know? Only a little of what has already happened.
    FROM: I promessi sposi, chapter viii, (1842), Novel, Italy

Cited by

• Howard Norman (1)
  • IN: The Bird Artist (1994) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Suddenly, with extreme violence, he felt himself seized by the desire to be, rain or no rain, at any price, in the midst of the valleys: alone.
    FROM: The Heron, (1968), NULL, Italy
• Jhumpa Lahiri (1)
  • IN: The Lowland (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: lascia ch’io torni al mio paese sepolto nell’erba come in un mare caldo e pesante Let me return to my home town entombed in grass as in a warm and high sea
    FROM: Saluto a Roma, (1945), Poem, Italy