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Conversations in Sicily

By Elio Vittorini, Alane Salierno Mason (Translator), Ernest Hemingway (Foreword by)
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By Elio Vittorini, Alane Salierno Mason (Translator), Ernest Hemingway (Foreword by)
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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 see...

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