Write 2 page essay on the topic The Geographical Poetics of Giovanni Verga.Download file "The Geographical Poetics of Giovanni Verga" to see previous pages... Verga's particular interest in the "south

Write 2 page essay on the topic The Geographical Poetics of Giovanni Verga.

Verga's particular interest in the "southern question" and problems of narrativizing identity provide robust ground for Moe's inquiry to the nature of representation of the South, the Italian South. In this paper, I will briefly review and comment on Moe's findings regarding the work of Giovanni Verga,

specifically his interest in the divisions between the real and the picturesque Italy.

The primary thrust of Moe's argument is that Verga's experience of Milan, "the most citified city in Italy,"1 by Verga's own admission offered an interesting counterpoint from which to pose the "southern question," namely the menacing and problematically picturesque Sicily and the rest of the South. His experiences there made him intensely aware of the cultural, geographical and political distance that separated the two regions, and that this distance is manifested narratively in work of Verga. Moe proceeds to explicate this notion of distance through a close textual analysis of a number of works. In Eva, a story about a "doomed love affair" between Enrico and the title character, he presents an interchange between the two of them.