by Elio Vittorini · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781841953885
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«Conversations in Sicily» is the novel by Elio Vittorini, published by Canongate Books Ltd in paperback (160 pages, in English).
Silvestro returns to his native Sicily after learning that his father has left his mother. He accompanies her to visit people ill with malaria and tuberculosis, and that contact with misery reveals to him the «offended world»: oppressed and resigned humanity. Vittorini turns his wintry, mountainous Sicily into a metaphor for the world and existence.
English translation of «Conversazione in Sicilia», the original Italian novel published in 1941.
A classic work of twentieth-century Italian literature, of ethical and social commitment, for readers of literary fiction.
Elio Vittorini was an Italian writer and novelist. He was a contemporary of Cesare Pavese and an influential voice in the modernist school of novel writing. His best-known work, in English speaking countries, is the anti-fascist novel Conversations in Sicily, for which he was jailed when it was published in 1941. The first U.S. edition of the novel, published in 1949, included an introduction from Ernest Hemingway, whose style influenced Vittorini and that novel in particular.
