The Outcast

We present the audiobook “The Outcast”—a novella by the well-known Italian writer and journalist Matilde Serao (1856–1927).

Between a azure sky and the sea, on the green island of Nisida, amid flowers and fragrant scents, stands a grim prison where cunning robbers and cruel murderers serve their sentences. Here, among the villains chained up in fetters, lives the director’s family—the prison captain Galbi: his wife and his son Mario, a sickly, fragile boy, a tender flower born in the gloomy and stifling atmosphere of the prison.

Little Mario unexpectedly becomes the only comfort and consolation for Gennaro Traetta, inmate No. 417, an inveterate robber serving life for patricide…

A bright, vivid tale by Matilde Serao, filled with a longing for freedom and mercy, with love and suffering—packed with living, colorful landscape sketches, deep dramatic feelings, and inner psychological insight.