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The Smile of the Unknown Mariner

Vincenzo Consolo

出版	Carcanet Press, 1994
主題	Fiction / Literary
ISBN	18575405149781857540512
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=TrEcAQAAIAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋

Vincenzo Consolo quotes from Goya, chronicler of political cruelty and necessity: Sad foreshadowings of what's to come. Composed of narrative, letters, depositions and fragments, the novel evokes the hopes and despairs, false starts and brutal ends of a struggle for change during the Risorgimento, when Garibaldi landed in Sicily in 1860 and common folk believed social as well as political justice would follow. Enrico Pirajno, Baron of Mandralisca, fascinated by the arts of his native Sicily and by its snail-life, collects pictures, sculpture and molluscs. Gradually this aristocrat is drawn into the struggle, as witness, inadvertent accomplice, and finally as a participant, concern with justice over-riding natural reticence and compassion.