Word: torregreca
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...mountain roads. Vendetta of Silence is a novel written like a documentary. "At the request of my publishers and my lawyer, I have agreed to call this a novel," the author comments in a prefatory note to what, among other things, is a murder story. The "arrested violence" of Torregreca- all the bottled-up, soured passion-has exploded here. In the explosion, Miss Cornelisen's wryly fond exasperation with her mountain folk darkens into something like their own despair...
...Torregreca, this division of the soul turned into art. In Vendetta of Silence, the writing is brilliant but fragmented-a composite of diaries (A.C.'s and Marco's), letters and tape recordings. It is as if the writer were walking around her subject in the fullness of her eloquence, in the fullness of her heart, trying to find the way in. The final punishment for San Basilic is not that its people are cut off from the rest of the world but that they are cut off from themselves. "Sympathy cannot penetrate real desperation," Miss Cornelisen writes. That...
...TORREGRECA, by Ann Cornelisen. Full of an orphan's love for her adopted town, the author has turned a documentary of human adversity in southern Italy into the autobiography of a divided heart...
...TORREGRECA, by Ann Cornelisen. Full of an orphan's love for her adopted town, the author has turned a documentary of human adversity in southern Italy into the unflinching autobiography of a divided heart...
...TORREGRECA, by Ann Cornelisen. Full of an orphan's love for her adopted town, the author has turned a documentary of human adversity in southern Italy into the unflinching autobiography of a divided heart...