Usually his name is associated with the italian occurence of realism, the #verismo. One of his most famous novels is #Giacinta, a quasi naturalistic narrative about the misfortunes and „sexual deviancy“ of a young southern italian woman. The pseudo-scientific undertones of the naturalists are abandoned for a certain (veristic) auctorial and patriachal condolence with the woman. (2/6)

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Usually his name is associated with the italian occurence of realism, the #verismo. One of his most famous novels is #Giacinta, a quasi naturalistic narrative about the misfortunes and „sexual deviancy“ of a young southern italian woman. The pseudo-scientific undertones of the naturalists are abandoned for a certain (veristic) auctorial and patriachal condolence with the woman. (2/6)

#horror #horrorcommunity #gothic @litstudies