And yet his experience has changed him, and as Umberto Saba’s unfinished, autobiographical story breaks off, Ernesto has struck up a new, oddly romantic attachment to a boy his own age. A month of trysts ensues before the boy begins to tire of the relationship, finally escaping it altogether by engineering his own dismissal. One day a workingman makes advances to Ernesto, who responds with willing curiosity. His mother is eager for him to get ahead and has asked a local businessman to give him some workplace experience in his warehouse. Ernesto is a sixteen-year-old boy from an educated family who lives with his mother in Trieste. Hooray Youve discovered a title thats missing from our library. In the forties, ES was a neo-realist and also a critic and main promotor of film societies and magazines, as well as a photographer and movie director. Genre: Gay,Books,Fiction & Literature,Literary,Ī coming of age story that is a classic of gay literature, now in English for the first timeĮrnesto is a classic of gay literature, a tender and complex tale of sexual awakening by one of Italy’s most admired poets. Ernesto by Umberto Saba, 1987, Carcanet edition, in English.
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