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Sicilia! follows a man returning to visit his native Sicily, after living in New York City for many years. The film is an adaptation of Elio Vittorini's anti-fascist novel Conversations in Sicily, which was first published in 1941. [1] The film was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1999 Cannes Film Festival. [2]
The story concerns Silvestro Ferrauto and his return to Sicily after a long absence. Major themes of the work are detachment, poverty, exploitation and marital fidelity and respect. Conversazione in Sicilia literally translates to English as Conversation in Sicily ; English translations have appeared under that title and a variety of other ...
The Cousin (Italian: La cugina, same meaning but with feminine expressed) is a 1974 Italian romance film by the director Aldo Lado, with a score by Ennio Morricone.From a novel by Ercole Patti, it tells the coming of age stories of a group of young people in Sicily in the 1950s.
The game is based in Sicily in the 1900s, in the fictional town of San Celeste, which was previously featured in Mafia II. [3] It is based around the origins of the Mafia. [1] The narrative follows original protagonist Enzo Favara who journeys from a childhood of indentured labor in Sicily's sulfur mines to joining the Torrisi crime family. [4]
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The novels have been translated into a number of languages. The English translations, by Stephen Sartarelli, began after five novels had been published in Italian and gained popularity among the Italian-speaking public. Sartarelli has attempted to maintain the mixture of Italian and Sicilian language in the dialogues.
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His best-known work, in English speaking countries, is the anti-fascist novel Conversations in Sicily, for which he was jailed when it was published in 1941. The first U.S. edition of the novel, published in 1949, included an introduction from Ernest Hemingway , whose style influenced Vittorini and that novel in particular.