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...learns that the victims were all middle-aged foreigners, balding and of athletic build. (Is it by chance too that the picture of Lem on the book's back cover matches this description?) In addition, the men were wealthy, single, and had been receiving treatments for rheumatism at the Vittorini mineral baths. In two years, all eleven men either vanished, went insane or committed suicide. After an unsuccessful inquiry by the Italian carabinieri, John is called in to pose as Adams, one of the victims, in the hope that he can induce a repetition of the circumstances that...
...neither the event nor the man involved were accurately perceived by those who saw Pasolini as a radical Communist and a great poet, or who saw his murder as a martyrdom. Pasolini was not terribly progressive, as compared with other Italian Communist poets such as Elio Vittorini, or Cesare Pavese. Pasolini's books denounced the social problems he saw around him; in "Ragazzi di Vita" ("Beach Boys of the City" and "Vita Violenta" ("Violent Life"), his two best-known prose works, he decried the barriers of class in contemporary Italy, the profound social divisions between regions, cities, even neighborhoods...
...Dark and the Light, by Elio Vittorini. Two short novels, one about a young girl who preserves her innocence even as she turns prostitute and an old fraud who preserves her vitality even as she approaches death, add up to a fine study in contrasts...
...DARK AND THE LIGHT (182 pp.]-Elio Vittorini-New Directions...
...feels responsible, mature, freed at last from the terror of waiting. Stubbornly refusing the neighbors' charity, she hits upon the inevitable solution. She goes to stand in the window with a ribbon in her hair, waiting for the soldiers to pass by. Never confusing sympathy with sentimentality. Author Vittorini somehow manages to preserve Erica's lambent innocence even as she turns prostitute...