Innocence (Fitzgerald novel)

This article is about the Penelope Fitzgerald novel. For other uses, see Innocence (disambiguation).
Innocence

Cover to first edition hardback
Author Penelope Fitzgerald
Country United Kingdom
Language English
Published 1986 (Collins)
Media type Print (Hardback)

Innocence is a novel by British author Penelope Fitzgerald. Set in Italy, it is a comedy of manners concerning the marriage of the young daughter of an old but impoverished aristocratic family, and a beginning neurologist who has tried to cut himself off from emotion.

Background

Fitzgerald had visited Italy frequently during the years 194983, including her belated honeymoon with Desmond (who had partly spent World War II in Italy), and a solo trip in 1976 as Desmond was dying, at his insistence. The Fitzgeralds had published Italian fiction in World Review in the 1950s. Fitzgerald was familiar with the Communist Cesare Pavese.[Note 1]

Reception

The result is as satisfying as it is entertaining.
John Gross, New York Times[1]

Critical review

The novel has a chapter of its own in Peter Wolfe Understanding Penelope Fitzgerald[2] and Hermione Lee Penelope Fitzgerald: A Life.[3]

Notes

  1. The count's nephew, named Cesare, is directly compared with Pavese (chapter 4).

References

  1. Gross, John (1987-04-28). "Books of the Times: Innocence". New York Times: C17.
  2. Wolfe 2004, pp. 184211.
  3. Lee 2014, pp. 30116.

Further reading

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