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By Paolo Volponi,Peter N. Pedroni

ISBN-10: 093497733X

ISBN-13: 9780934977333

while terrorist bombs explode in a Milan financial institution on December 12, 1969 they bring up the curtain on a solid of not going gamers: Prof. Gaspare Subissoni and his lifelong better half and concept Vivés, either anarchist veterans of the Spanish Civil battle; the younger count number Oddo Oddi-Semproni and his single aunts, Clelia and Marzia, who've secure him — and themselves — from the fashionable international of their crumbling Renaissance palace; their chauffeur Giocondini who serves them — and himself — with limousine excursions to “Italy” and with goals of a revived duchy; and the younger prostitute Dirce, whom Oddo may have for his countess and who units all their worlds upside-down while she, Gaspare and Vivés unite forces.

What, finally, is extra actual: the pictures of far-off factors and celebrities that sparkle off and on the television monitor, the superseded conflicts and hatreds of the earlier? Or the loves, stories and gives you of a unmarried lifetime? Politics invented for and through television, Northern League separatists, old-guard leftists and neo-fascists all come jointly many years sooner than today’s headlines during this wry and knowing novel of sophistication, background and private dedication, set opposed to the busy squares and proud towers of recent Urbino.

Paolo Volponi (1924–1994), novelist, poet and Italian senator, was once the 1st individual to two times win Italy’s such a lot prestigious literary prize, the Premio Strega.

“The novel is wealthy in poetic nuances and surrealistic flashes that remodel political ideology right into a own fight for identification. the interpretation captures Volponi’s impeccable type, a literary finesse that makes his writing striking and, in lots of methods, unique.” (Choice)

“…a wealthy combination of political remark and sexual farce.… not easy yet finally worthwhile fiction.” (Kirkus Reviews)

First English translation, with an advent, through Peter N. Pedroni.

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