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Corrado Alvaro

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Corrado Alvaro


Born
in San Luca, Reggio Calabria, Italy
April 15, 1895

Died
June 11, 1956

Genre
Fiction


Corrado Alvaro was an Italian journalist and writer of novels, short stories, screenplays and plays. He often used the verismo style to describes the hopeless poverty in his native Calabria. His first success was Gente in Aspromonte (Revolt in Aspromonte), which examined the exploitation of rural peasants by greedy landowners in Calabria, and is considered by many critics to be his masterpiece.

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Average rating: 3.61 · 646 ratings · 72 reviews · 96 distinct works • Similar authors
Gente in Aspromonte
3.47 avg rating — 242 ratings — published 1930 — 14 editions
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L'uomo è forte
3.35 avg rating — 80 ratings — published 1938 — 10 editions
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L'età breve
3.48 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 1946 — 5 editions
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Quasi una vita
3.76 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 1950 — 4 editions
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Vent'anni
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L'amata alla finestra
4.25 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1929 — 4 editions
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Il mare
2.70 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 1934 — 2 editions
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L'uomo nel labirinto
2.89 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 1926 — 3 editions
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La signora dell'isola
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Occhi di donna
3.67 avg rating — 6 ratings
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