![]() But the Cabala gives this American abroad the nickname of Samuele.įollowing his first meeting with the Cabala, Blair takes Samuele to visit a mortally ill English poet. The young American, whose name is never given, becomes their confidant. ![]() Blair introduces him to a small influential group of Roman aristocrats, called the Cabala. ![]() Its first-person narrator, a well-read and classically educated young American of a Puritan mindset, goes to Rome with his friend, the scholar James Blair. Albert & Charles Boni published the book in 1926. Wilder continued working on the book during his years as a French teacher at the Lawrenceville School and a graduate student in French literature at Princeton, completing it in 1925. Thornton Wilder began The Cabala, his first novel, as a journal while residing at the American Academy in Rome in 1920-1921, where he studied Roman archaeology. The Cabala, a semiautobiographical novel of unforgettable characters and human passions, launched Wilder’s career as a celebrated storyteller and dramatist. While there, he experiences firsthand the waning days of a secret community (a “cabala”) of decaying royalty, a great cardinal of the Roman Church, and an assortment of memorable American ex-pats. A young American student spends a year in the exotic world of post-World War I Rome. ![]()
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