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...seven years Camillo the priest and Peppone the Communist have been meeting in combat for the souls and minds of the inhabitants of the now famed (if unnamed) village in Italy's Po River Valley...
...CAMILLO'S DILEMMA (255 pp.)-Giovanni Guareschi-Farrar, Straus & Young...
With a few rare exceptions, tough, quickwitted Don Camillo wins each engagement over earnest, bumbling Mayor Peppone and his comrades. But who wins the elections and continues to preside over the municipal affairs of Don Camillo's flock? Communist Peppone and the party. This is Don Camillo's-and Italy's-dilemma...
...devoutly to God. confess to their priests, and cast their ballots for Communists. To solve this dilemma in fiction would be to do more than Italy has accomplished in reality. Some of the 25 sketches in this volume, like those in its two predecessors (The Little World of Don Camillo, Don Camillo and His Flock), show the marks of haste; all were written originally for a right-wing humorous weekly that Writer-Cartoonist Guareschi ordinarily edits and supplies with half its material. Some are forced. But no more amusing satire has come out of the essentially humorless battlegrounds...
Kings & Queens. The good don, on the other hand, does not always stick to the saintly, and is not above stooping occasionally to the Communist notion that the end justifies the means. One day Peppone, to recover from a bad psychological-warfare defeat inflicted by Don Camillo, launches a big "Poker Tournament for the Peace Crusade." Peppone personally wins for the Communists. To neutralize the Red victory, Don Camillo challenges the mayor to an extra poker match, not in the tavern, of course, where it would be improper for a priest to loiter at cards, but across the tavern...