Passion
By: I.U. Tarchetti ; translated by Lawrence Venuti.
Contributors: Venuti, Lawrence.
Publisher: Mercury House
Published: 1994
Place of publication: San Francisco
Language: eng
Number of pages: 196
Subjects: Sexual attraction -- Fiction; Italy -- Fiction
Description: Set in mid-nineteenth-century Italy, Passion tells of a love triangle involving Giorgio, an officer in the Italian army; Clara, a robust young married woman with a child; and the grotesque, vampire-like Fosca, who embodies the romantic macabre. The relationships, one involving adultery and the other a flouting of social conventions, are treated with warped extremity, at once serious and ironic.