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...Elio A. Bosco has filed a $100,000 libel suit against i.e. The Cambridge Review, editors of the magazine revealed last night. Bosco objected to the passage in which i.e. claimed that he was "selling drugs around the square" and "distributing pornographic movies to the clubs...
...much in the grace of Mussolini that I was never permitted to speak on the radio, to work in the theater or in the cinema, and from 1933 until the liberation, I was deprived of a passport, while all the other writers-for example, [Alberto] Moravia and [Elio] Vittorini-had them . . . In 1940 . . . I was recalled to the army as a war correspondent. Because of my articles from the Russian front . . . I was arrested in the Ukraine by the SS. I was one of the three Italian officers who organized the Italian Army of Liberation which fought with the Allies...
...final item, Kelly's review of The Red Carnation by Elio Vittorino, also has merit. Kelly explores all possible levels of the novel and writes with authority and insight. Some of his speculations on the principle character's motivations, nevertheless, are difficult to understand...
...CARNATION (244 pp.)-Elio Vittorini-New Directions...
...critics are pretty much agreed that Elio Vittorini is a novelist to reckon with. In Sicily and The Twilight of the Elephant even brought him a plug from Ernest Hemingway: "One of the very best of the new Italian writers." His U.S. publishers believe that The Red Carnation, too, is "a fine example of Italy's incredible literary renaissance." But pinning down just what is good in Vittorini's novels takes a little more saying...