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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
The Sicilian Magic Mountain,
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This review is from: The Plague Sower (Eridanos Press Library) (Paperback)
Set in a Sicilian sanatorium in the late 40s, this novel--written by one of the finest Italian writers of the 80s--deals (in fewer pages) with the same basic themes of Th. Mann's masterpiece. It is a mediterranean, sun-scorched, surrealistic, stylistically baroque magic mountain, and deserves 4 stars only because Bufalino is also the author of the amazing Lies of the Night. Partly autobiographic, this novel is haunted, like other Bufalino's novels, by endless literary echoes and is totally enjoyable by foreign readers.
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
magnificent language,
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This review is from: The Plague Sower (Eridanos Press Library) (Paperback)
I read this book in italian, and I was absolutely impressed by the power of Bufalino's language. No matter what he writes about, you will be astonished by how effective it is. Like Marguerite Yourcenar, he manages to express very deep concepts with very few words: amazing. I am sure that also through the translation you will be able to appreciate it.
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The Plague Sower (Eridanos Press Library) by Gesualdo Bufalino (Paperback - Nov. 1988)
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