Ernesto (novel)

Ernesto
First edition
AuthorUmberto Saba
LanguageItalian
GenreNovel
PublisherEinaudi
Publication date
1975
Publication placeItaly
Media typeHardback and paperback
Pages162 pp (hardback edition)

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. As one critic says: "he revisited not only the scenes but also the moods of his puberty".[2]

A screenplay freely adapted from the novel served as the basis for an Italian-language film of the same name in 1979.[3][4]

  1. ^ Beck, Melissa Considine (6 July 2017). "An Incomplete Life: Review of Ernesto by Umberto Saba". Numéro Cinq Magazine. Retrieved 8 November 2018.
  2. ^ Woods, Gregory (2014). "Saba, Umberto". In Summers, Claude J. (ed.). Gay and Lesbian Literary Heritage. Routledge. ISBN 9781135303990.
  3. ^ Lupi, Giordano (5 November 2014). "Ernesto (Film, 1978)". Futuro Europa (in Italian). Archived from the original on 24 October 2018. Retrieved 24 October 2018.
  4. ^ Van Gelder, Lawrence (23 September 1983). "Screen: Italy's 'Ernesto', Teen-Age Rebel in 1911". The New York Times. Retrieved 8 November 2018.