{"product_id":"the-dance-of-the-necklace-9781599104492","title":"The Dance of the Necklace","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn The Dance of the Necklace, Grazia Deledda moves away from the countryside of her native Sardinia to create a classically modern, urban narrative. Writing in a more spare, experimental style, she uncovers the \"vain anguish of our strongest passions: love, ambition, and the instinct to appear more than what we are.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA pearl necklace symbolizes the \"dance\" of jealousy, greed, and love, both erotic and familial, which unites and divides the three main characters: an aunt and her niece who share the same name and a young count seeking to regain his family's bartered string of pearls. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn innocent deception\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003eturns on itself to explore the nature of the double and the mask: two topoi of modernity. Like Virginia Woolf, Doris Lessing, and Annie Ernaux, Deledda delves into what it means to be a woman, alone and aging, living in a world where she is increasingly unwanted and invisible despite her lingering desires. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAccording to the critic Margherita Heyer-Caput, the novel is one of Deledda's \"most conscious and disquieting expressions of modernity.\" It challenges the labels often applied to this writer and overturns established critical categories to question margin-center hierarchies applied to her work. \u003cem\u003eThe Dance of the Necklace \u003c\/em\u003eis a remarkable and rare example of Deledda's modernism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFirst English translation of \u003cem\u003eLa Danza della Collana\u003c\/em\u003e (1924). \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction, notes, bibliography.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e124 pages.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Italica Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50867573621010,"sku":"9781599104492","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_8022bf92-5e55-4ff8-924a-5f8771591746.jpg?v=1737698553","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-dance-of-the-necklace-9781599104492","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}