Word: vittorini
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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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...