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It 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. Here the feeling of the country and the character of the mother are quite marvelous.This reprint retains the introduction by Hemingway thatappeared in the 1949 U.S. edition. That's worth the price alone.
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