by François Maspero · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9782020209090
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«Le temps des Italiens» is the novel by François Maspero published by Seuil in 1994 (139 pages, in French).
The novel takes place by the sea, at dusk, and places Lise before Lieutenant Mario. He confides to her the names of Alice, Barbara and their parents, who tried to cross into Italy and were detained by the French; Lise must always remember them. The narrative interweaves memory, identity and the weight of history in an Italian context.
The work belongs to the Fiction & Cie collection from Seuil, published in Paris. The book is in French and has 139 pages.
For readers interested in contemporary French fiction and stories about memory and identity.
François Maspero was a French author and journalist, best known as a publisher of leftist books in the 1970s. He also worked as a translator, translating the works of Joseph Conrad, Mehdi Ben Barka, and John Reed, author of Ten Days that Shook the World, among others. He was awarded the Prix Décembre in 1990 for Les Passagers du Roissy-Express.
