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...SICILY (163 pp.)-Elio Vittorini-New Directions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Cure for Silvestro | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

...this point, In Sicily is an excellent novel about the same kind of simple and appealing people that Ignazio Silone (Bread and Wine, The Seed Beneath the Snow) writes about-all done in a clipped Hemingwayesque style. But just about midway, Novelist Vittorini goes off on a wild-swinging tear into symbolism which is part sentimentality, part hallucination. His characters begin to chant lugubrious dirges about the "world's outrages" that sound as if they had been written by William Saroyan with an ice pack on his head...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Cure for Silvestro | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

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