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ABOUT THIS BOOK

PUBLISHER: Canongate Books

FORMAT: Paperback

ISBN: 9781841954509

RRP: £9.99

PAGES: 224

PUBLICATION DATE:
September 2, 2004

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Conversations in Sicily

Elio Vittorini

Alane Salierno Mason

Alane Salierno Mason

Ernest Hemingway

Vividly capturing the heat, sounds and smells of southern Italy, “Conversations In Sicily” astounds with its modernity, lyricism and originality. Driven by a sense of total disconnection, the narrator embarks on a journey from northern Italy to Sicily, the home he has not seen in some fifteen years. Through the conversations of the islanders and a reunion with his mother, he gradually begins to feel reconnected. But to what kind of world? Written during Mussolini’s time in power, “Conversations In Sicily” is one of the great novels of anti-fascism.

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Elio Vittorini

Elio Vittorini was born in Siracusa, Sicily in 1908. An acclaimed translator (Defoe, Faulkner, Lawrence, Steinbeck and Somerset Maugham) and broadcaster and activist all his life, it wasn’t until 1941 that Conversations in Sicily first appeared. A highly outspoken critic of Mussolini and his fascist government,Vittorini was arrested and jailed in 1942. He died in 1966.