{"product_id":"conversations-in-sicily-paperback","title":"Conversations in Sicily - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eElio Vittorini\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eAlane Salierno Mason\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator), \u003cb\u003eErnest Hemingway\u003c\/b\u003e (Foreword by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt stands as a modern classic not only for its powerful thematic resonance as one of the great novels of Italian anti-fascism but also as a trailblazer for its style, which blends literary modernism with the pre-modern fable in a prose of lyric beauty. Comparing Vittorini's work to Picasso's, Italo Calvino described Conversations as the book-Guernica.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The novel begins at a time in the narrator's life when nothing seems to matter; whether he is reading newspaper posters blaring of wartime massacres, lying in bed with his wife or girlfriend, or flipping through the pages of a dictionary it is all the same to him--until he embarks on a journey back to Sicily, the home he has not seen in some fifteen years. In traveling through the Sicilian countryside and in variously hilarious and tragic conversations with its people--his indomitable mother in particular--he reconnects with his roots and rediscovers some basic human values.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In the introduction Hemingway wrote for the American debut of \u003cem\u003eConversations\u003c\/em\u003e (published as \u003cem\u003eIn Sicily\u003c\/em\u003e by New Directions in 1949) he remarked: I care very much about Vittorini's ability to bring rain with him when he comes, if the earth is dry and that is what you need. More recently, American critic Donald Heiney wrote that in this one book, Vittorini like Rabelais and Cervantes...adds a new artistic dimension to the history of literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 144\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.57 x 7.93 x 5.21 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 17, 2000\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51757705953568,"sku":"9780811214551","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/5b3e03996fd88c2f713abd2284fc0429.webp?v=1780109626","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/conversations-in-sicily-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}