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Conversations in Sicily holds a special place in the annals of literature. It stands as a modern classic not only for its powerful thematic resonance as one of the great novels of Italian anti-fascism but also as a trailblazer for its style, which blends literary modernism with the pre-modern fable in a prose of lyric beauty. Comparing Vittorini's work to Picasso's, Italo Calvino described Conversations as "the book-Guernica."
The novel begins at a time in the narrator's life when nothing seems to matter; whether he is reading newspaper posters blaring of wartime massacres, lying in bed with his wife or girlfriend,
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Manufacturer: New Directions
Release date: 1 November 2000
ISBN-10 : 0811214559 | ISBN-13: 9780811214551
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Release date: 1 November 2000
ISBN-10 : 0811214559 | ISBN-13: 9780811214551
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