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Giovanni Verga was a man with class— he belonged to the landed gentry— but wrote about the common, the low, and the mundane, in a writing style noted for its terse accuracy and intense passion. Called verismo, realism, it became the pattern for the later Neo-Realism school of thought among writers.
Yesterday one preacher saw that realism, one fit for the opera, a stage drama. Could be a Palanca winner of a short story. “La Lupa” in Giovanni Verga’s story means she wolf; it is a vignette of one Sicilian life, of the intense mundane passion of that life. Find that story and enjoy reading. In the mountains of Cebu above the village of Bonbon, “La Lupa” is a woman who owns a small chalet on top of a hill, who with her drinking husband also tills three plots of flower farms hugging the hill. Her husband had once attended the preacher’s Bible teaching sessions, albeit with his beer mug or a bottle of Vino Kulafu, but “La Lupa” never came in spite of the invitations. Later her husband also stopped coming: The preacher’s preaching stood in the way of him and his beer mug.
“La Lupa” is a weary soul but she never gets tired of acquiring things. Their house is a pantheon of modern gadgets, which their two kids enjoy using, but the couple, “La Lupa” and her husband, don’t. “La Lupa” goes back to her wandering when opportunity permits, her husband back to his wine.
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