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...discussed the works of the men whom he considered outstanding in the movement: Pratolini Flaiano, Vittorini, Levi, Berto, Malaparte, Moravia, Pavese, and Marrota. He considers Vittorini, whose 1937 novel "In Sicily" was recently published in this country by New Directions, to be the most important of the group...
...SHORT CUT (302 pp.)-Ennio Flaiano-Pellegrini & Cudahy...
Conscience Makes Cowards. Like American Paul (The Sheltering Sky) Bowles and French Albert (The Plague) Camus, Italian Ennio Flaiano has found Africa a fertile field in which to cultivate an existentialist viewpoint. The unnamed lieutenant who narrates The Short Cut feels that he was the victim of events; even his murder of the Ethiopian girl seemed a deed to which he was driven by forces beyond his control. But his conscience worked against him, carried him into a feverish world where he became convinced that his victim had given him leprosy. When his careful inquiries about the disease aroused...
...things turned out, it was not leprosy at all, even though the sores looked real and the girl had worn a leper's turban. "Disgusting poultices" applied by the dead girl's father soon "cured" the lieutenant; but Author Flaiano applies no explanatory poultices whatever to readers tricked for 160 pages into shivering with the lieutenant over a phony case of leprosy...
...moral: "We are all innocent." Tacked on to an arbitrary, symbol-burdened plot, Author Flaiano's cheerful conclusion will probably not convince even determined existentialists...
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