Author | Vitaliano Brancati |
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Language | Italian |
Genre | Fiction narrative |
Published | 1941 |
Publication place | Italy |
Media type | |
ISBN | 9788806188672 |
OCLC | 917487376 |
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The main character of the novel, Giovanni Percolla, is used to depict the scenario of male sexual conceit (in Italian: gallismo) characterising Sicily in the late 1930s. [2] [3]
In 1967, director Alberto Lattuada adapted the novel into a film of the same name.
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