Conversations In Sicily

AvElio Vittorini

Häftad, Engelska, 2004

Del i serien Canongate Books

131 kr

Skickas . Fri frakt över 249 kr.

Fler format och utgåvor

Häftad

244 kr

Beskrivning

Vividly capturing the heat, sounds and smells of southern Italy, Conversations in Sicily astounds with its modernity, lyricism and originality. Driven by a sense of total disconnection, the narrator embarks on a journey from northern Italy to Sicily, the home he has not seen in some fifteen years. Through the conversations of the islanders and a reunion with his mother, he gradually begins to feel reconnected. But to what kind of world? Written during Mussolini's time in power, Conversations in Sicily is one of the great novels of anti-fascism.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2004-09-02
Mått:127 x 197 x 17 mm
Vikt:160 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Canongate Books
Antal sidor:224
Förlag:Canongate Books
Medarbetare:Ernest Hemingway
ISBN:9781841954509
Översättare:Alane Salierno Mason

Utforska kategorier

Mer om författaren

Elio Vittorini was born in Siracusa, Sicily in 1908. An acclaimed translator (Defoe, Faulkner, Lawrence, Steinbeck and Somerset Maugham) and broadcaster and activist all his life, it wasn't until 1941 that Conversations in Sicily first appeared. A highly outspoken critic of Mussolini and his fascist government,Vittorini was arrested and jailed in 1942. He died in 1966.

Recensioner i media

Superbly written ... Vittorini's unique prose laps against one in repetitious wavelets, alive to the rhythm and significance of language in a way more common to poetry than to prose.Praised in the past by writers like Ernest Hemingway and Italo Calvino, this new translation by Alane Mason restores a paint-fresh vividness to a classic novel, too-little known in the English speaking world.