Bomarzo

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Bomarzo is a historical novel in the grand manner, a first-person portrait of a hunchback bullied by his family and determined to prove a villain. It is also a commentary on such h istorical fictions. But above all it is an immersive story told in a sumptuous style—like one of Poe’s Italian tales rewritten by Proust—as Gregory Rabassa’s translation beautifully conveys. Show more