中文参考译名:该Finzi花园Continis（普通人的图书馆经典与当代经典）
Authors:Giorgio Bassani,  William Weaver, Tim Park,
Publisher: Everyman’s Library
Keywords: classics, contemporary, library, everyman, finzi, continis, garden
Number of Pages: 246
Published: 2005-07-19
List price: $23.00
ISBN-10: 1400044227
ISBN-13: 9781400044221

Giorgio Bassani’s masterwork has Vittorio de Sica’s 1971 film adaptation to thank for its dual success and obscurity. Not enough people know that this tale of a middle-class Jewish youth’s obsession with the far more aristocratic Micol Finzi-Contini stems from a novel, not a novelization. Bassani’s doom- and tomb-ridden examination of one-sided love is far more complex--about individuals’ inability to contend with personal and political annihilation. Events call for heroism, yet it seems "downright absurd that now, all of a sudden, exceptional behavior was demande