Padre Padrone

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Padre Padrone is the moving autobiographical story of furious opposition between man and nature, father and son.
The book begins as a vivid portrayal of Sardinian village and shepherd life in all its misery, violence and ignorance. At the age of five, Gavino is wrenched from school and home to tend the family flocks. Nature and his father, both brutal, terrifying and irrational, are his only teachers for the next fifteen years.
Gradually, Gavino becomes obsessed with the desire to escape, to join the great emigrations - but his bid to go as a miner to Holland fails and he turns instead to the army. This too is a world of senseless discipline, but here at least Gavino gets his chance to study. Battling against his own near-illiteracy Gavino tears back the birthright of which his father deprived him. He returns to the village to prepare for university entrance and for the final horrifying confrontation with his old master.
Gavino Ledda was born in Siligo, Sardinia in 1938. He has... Tovább

Fülszöveg

Padre Padrone is the moving autobiographical story of furious opposition between man and nature, father and son.
The book begins as a vivid portrayal of Sardinian village and shepherd life in all its misery, violence and ignorance. At the age of five, Gavino is wrenched from school and home to tend the family flocks. Nature and his father, both brutal, terrifying and irrational, are his only teachers for the next fifteen years.
Gradually, Gavino becomes obsessed with the desire to escape, to join the great emigrations - but his bid to go as a miner to Holland fails and he turns instead to the army. This too is a world of senseless discipline, but here at least Gavino gets his chance to study. Battling against his own near-illiteracy Gavino tears back the birthright of which his father deprived him. He returns to the village to prepare for university entrance and for the final horrifying confrontation with his old master.
Gavino Ledda was born in Siligo, Sardinia in 1938. He has a doctorate in Linguistics and is at present teaching at Sassari High School. He has written another book about Sardinia, Lingua di Falce.
The film Padre Padrone by Paolo and Vittorio Taviani, which was based on the book, won the Golden Palm Prize at Cannes i n 1977, and the New York Film Festival in the same year.
"It does what art is supposed to do - illuminate the human condition. Bravo." Joseph Gelmis, Newsday
"Remarkably stylized and imaginative in its treatment of memory." Judith Crist, New York Post
"The film is vivid and very moving, stirring affirmative, coarse but seldom blunt, and filled with raw landscapes that underscore the naturalness and the inevitability of the father-son rituals it depicts." Janet Maslin, New York Times Vissza