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Ernesto is an unfinished novel by Umberto Saba (1883–1957), written in 1953 and published posthumously in 1975. It was his only work of fiction. [ 1 ] It was largely autobiographical, including details about the title character's friendship and love for a violinist, and his attachment to his native Trieste.
Jan 1, 2001 · Umberto Saba. Ernesto, sixteen, searches for the love he can't find from his family, in sexual encounters with an older man, a prostitute, and a boy his own age. 180 pages, Hardcover. First published January 1, 1975.
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Umberto Saba’s secret novel Ernesto re-creates a boy’s awakening to sexual love with both men and women. It’s a story so fresh, so alive to nuances of feeling and perception, it defies any formulaic understanding of love in Saba’s time or in our own.
- New York Review Books
Jul 6, 2017 · Ernesto is, in fact, his only work of fiction. Written at the age of seventy when, after suffering one of his many nervous breakdown s, and confined to a sanatorium in Rome, Ernesto tells a loosely autobiographical coming-of-age tale about a boy’s burgeoning sexuality.
Ernesto is a classic of gay literature, a tender and complex tale of sexual awakening by one of Italy’s most admired poets. Ernesto is a sixteen-year-old boy from an educated family who lives with his mother in Trieste.
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Mar 28, 2017 · Arguably among Italy’s finest poets of modern times, Umberto Saba’s Ernesto (first published posthumously in 1975; the New York Review Books edition translated by Estelle Gilson with an Introduction and additional essays and notes by the translator; 2017) is a remarkable coming of age novel about a sixteen-year-old boy set in Trieste, Italy ...
Aug 10, 2017 · Read this novel as a bildungsroman about the birth of poet, the discovery new ways of understanding the world through discovering sex and sexual love - it is a lovely story and I can assure you as a story of adolescence it is unrivalled in its portrayal of the shallowness and stupidities of youth as only someone looking back with knowledge and ...
- Umberto Saba
