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...Owl of Minerva, by Gustav Regler. This first-rate memoir of an ex-Communist, far from the customary exercise in self-justification, tells of the author's misadventures in the century's wars and revolutions, offers insight into the politics and morals...
...OWL OF MINERVA (375 pp.)-Gustav Regler-Farrar, Straus & Cudahy...
Eight months ago, as he whipped up Sicilian voters with the slogan, "Sicily for the Sicilians. Down with the mainland," owl-eyed Silvio Milazzo (TIME, June 22) indignantly denied that he was proCommunist. "I am no Trojan horse," intoned dissident Christian Democrat Milazzo. "I am a pure-blooded Sicilian horse, a noble animal." He became president of Sicily's semi-autonomous regional government, ruling in coalition with the Communists. But last week Maverick Milazzo, no longer regarded as so pure-blooded a Sicilian horse, was put to pasture...
...life. Like the sculptured gods of Egypt and Sumeria, his figures are still, withdrawn, awesome. Yet they also express a sharply contrasting sense of the ordinary and everyday. He casts fat, simple, dull-seeming people in the roles of gods and heroes. Except for his owl, and the timelessness it symbolizes, the Seated Man might be riding a subway...
...owl, too, is an ambiguous image. It represents wisdom, but also "the bird of darkness. You never hear an owl when it takes off to attack...