Book reviews: Conversations in Siclly: Paperbacks

From: The Scotsman | Date: April 5, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

Conversations in Siclly by Elio Vittorini (Canongate, 8.99) ****

NESTLED between a foreword by Italo Calvino and an afterword by Ernest Hemingway, Vittorini's groundbreaking 1930s novel should seem overshadowed, but the calibre of his bookends reflects his own status as a writer. Conversations In Sicily, a series of images of Sicilian life which form part of the journey of a returning native, was his best-known work in Italy, although too few people will have heard of it here. Part of the reason, as its new translator Alane Salierno Mason reveals in his introduction, is that it suffered from ...

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