L'Arrabiata And Other Tales

by Paul Heyse, Mary Wilson (Translator)

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Genres: Nobel Prize

600 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 1984

About the author

Paul Johann Ludwig von Heyse (15 March 1830 – 2 April 1914) was a distinguished German writer and translator. A member of two important literary societies, the Tunnel über der Spree in Berlin and Die Krokodile in Munich, he wrote novels, poetry, 177 short stories, and about sixty dramas. The sum of Heyse's many and varied productions made him a dominant figure among German men of letters.

Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1910 "as a tribute to the consummate artistry, permeated with idealism, which he has demonstrated during his long productive career as a lyric poet, dramatist, novelist and writer of world-renowned short stories."

Reviews

[Tom · Rating 2 out of 5]

Heyse has a felicity of expression, but little else. It is easy to breeze through his short stories, enjoying the aptness of his words and the charming shading of the scenes - but the scenes amount to little of note outside their picturesqueness. Perhaps the exception is 'Walter's Little Mother,' which has some intriguing Freudian undertones.

[Yobaín Vázquez · Rating 3 out of 5]

Por alguna razón, Heyse quiso escribir historias ambientadas en Italia. Supongo que porque todas ellas son pasionales y quería exotizar a este país mediterráneo. Como quiera, son sencillas narraciones en las que el amor siempre está presente. No arriesga nada estilísticamente.

L'arrabiata es un cuento sobre una moza que se ha decidido no juntarse con hombres, pero luego de casi una violación descubre que siempre sí quiere. O Andrea Delfín, quizá la historia más trepidante, sobre un tipo que quiere vengarse de los inquisidores que le arrebataron todo. O La muchacha de Treppi, una historia de amors con contrabandistas.

Me gustó su estilo directo y sin complicaciones, tiene buen ritmo pero salvo el de Andrea Delfín, no logra sostener por tantas páginas sus historias. Unas incluso llegan a aburrir porque no llegan al punto. Y ya sé que no tiene por qué hacerlo, pero ahí se nota claramente más deficiencia que una propuesta autoral.

O sea, me gustó pero no me cambió la vida.

[Fausto · Rating 3 out of 5]

Una recopilación de cuentos escritos a mitad del siglo XIX, donde el autor plasma aspectos cotidianos de la Italia de la época, con historias de amor y desamor usando una escritura elegante y con personajes que presentan cierta complejidad sicológica. El autor ganó el Nobel de Literatura en 1910 y L'Arrabiata fue su relato más exitoso.

[Lisajean · Rating 3 out of 5]

Paul Heyse won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1910 "as a tribute to the consummate artistry, permeated with idealism, which he has demonstrated during his long productive career as a lyric poet, dramatist, novelist and writer of world-renowned short stories."

Heyse is #59/121 on my Nobel reading challenge. These stories weren't bad, but they also weren't particularly interesting. Heyse's writing felt dull and formulaic. Not a winner for me.

[Ruben · Rating 1 out of 5]

So boring.
I had heard about L'Arrabiata short story before, I think it's overrated. The last two stories (Doomed and Beatrice) are just empty.
I hope these aren't really the best stories from the author.

[Sarah · Rating 2 out of 5]

The titular story, L'Arrabbiata (The Fury), was pretty good - passion, anguish, hardship. The other stories were overly long and formulaic, with each one having an easily guessed happy ending. Read two-thirds of the stories then gave up.