Novel
Caccia all'uomo
Not translated into English
Roberto Roversi · 1959
Synopsis
Calabria in the early nineteenth century, during the war between the brigands loyal to the Bourbons and the French occupying troops of General Manhès. The band leader Boccone commands two hundred men there and plunders the country without anything ever satisfying him; a prostitute wants to take revenge on the priest who exploited her. Around them, a divided and occupied land, where violence always falls back on the most destitute.
Context
The novel takes up and reworks stories that the author had published in 1952 at the Palmaverde bookshop under the title “Ai tempi di re Gioacchino”. It appeared from Mondadori in June 1959, in the collection La Medusa degli italiani. The author's first novel, it is a historical narrative on several levels, in which the experience of war comes across indirectly rather than documentarily. The Pendragon publishing house reissued it in 2011.
Who it is for
A short novel of about one hundred and eighty pages, built on several levels of narrative.
Prizes and reception
According to the Rossocorpolingua bibliography, Elio Vittorini devoted a notice to the author in 1960 in the journal Il Menabò.
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