Conversations in Sicily (New Directions Classic) |
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Pages: 144 (Paperback)
ISBN: 0811214559
Pub: W. W. Norton & Co.
Pub date: 2001-02-08
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 193527
Reader Reviews:
Italian magical realism (6/9 people found this helpful)
Vitttorini slowly introduces us to the strange and alternate view held by the sicilian emigre and the powerful and often fanciful and revitionist hold the "family" and concepts of home hold over those that have left these both behind in the search for something better. More a travel journal than a novel the book and its author descend slowly into the emotional morass that any homecoming creates, leaving us the reader, struggling with the allegory of a place that has changed beyond understanding and yet as Lampedusa says in The Leopard where, "everytrhing has changed and everything has stayed the same"
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