Word: vittorini
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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...