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ASILO ED ESILIO
Predrag Matvejevic, Meltemi editore, Roma 1997
(ed.it.) f.to 12x19 – pp. 252 - ISBN 88-11-86479-41-7
A new and fantastic portrait of today’s Europe has been
given by the author of Breviario Mediterraneo. Between asylum
and exile narrates the persecution of the author’s family
and the destiny of the dissent in Russia and the Slave countries.
It is an epistolary novel with a patchwork of letters written
for defending intellectuals and Russian writers, notes taken
during journeys and political considerations melt with accounts
of tortures and victims; from Sakarov to Breznev, Stalin and
Bucharin, from Gorbacëv to Solženicyn, from El’cin
to Mandel’štam, from Trockj to Brodskij.
A loud and strong narrative of ordinary lives on the search
of their own roots. A narrative where despair and memories become
hope and common destinies. |
Matvejevic occupies the human and
literary niche between asylum and exile and transforms his personal
account into a grand literary oeuvre.
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