Gli Idioti = The Idiots
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Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Idiots_(short_story) Release date is 2020-11-27
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"Gli Idioti = The Idiots" by Joseph Conrad is a short story first published in 1896. Set in rural Brittany, it follows a farming couple whose children are born with intellectual disabilities. As the strain of their circumstances intensifies, Jean-Pierre and Susan Bacadou face mounting desperation about their family's future and the farm's succession. The story builds toward a violent climax involving murder and suicide, all framed by the narrator's encounter with "the idiots" on a country road. Conrad's first published story explores themes of isolation and human desperation. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
English fiction -- 19th century Farmers -- Fiction Husband and wife -- Fiction Families -- Fiction Brittany (France) -- Fiction English fiction -- Translations into Italian Children with mental disabilities -- Fiction