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...BRIGAND (224 pp.) - GiuseppeBerto-New Directions...
...fiction may be in the doldrums, but good novels continue to come out of postwar Italy. The latest, and one of the best, is The Brigand, a tragic story of an army veteran who tries to play Robin...
Hood for the poor peasants of his village but succeeds only in bringing misery to them and death to himself. A striking improvement over Berto's first novel, The Sky Is Red (TIME, Oct. 25, 1948), The Brigand shines with the kind of love for the Italian peasant that characterizes Ignazio Silone's novels._It is a tone of love which almost never finds its way into U.S. writing...
...growing thick as thorn bushes across their tropic path. Van Sterteen falls in love with a Spanish girl so proud that she will marry him and bear his child, but will not lie and say that she loves him. At the end, she goes to her death for a brigand whose only caress was administered with a horsewhip. Saint-Benoist is caught up in a struggle to save his soul. Oldhorse, the man with a vision, drives on to his goal (the establishment of a humanitarian-and profitable-state) with the world-weariness of the true devotee...
...Easiest Thing." Thereafter, one of the sights of Mexico was the lusty old brigand and two or three of his henchmen driving daily in his 1920 Overland touring car from Parral to the ranch. One day in 1923, General Motors Dealer Gabriel Chavez and some friends were standing before the agency show window as Pancho rattled past. The men scowled. Some had lost brothers killed by Villa, others remembered womenfolk carried away. Chavez said: "I wonder if anybody will dare let him have...