by Vitaliano Brancati Translated by P Creagh Original title: Gli anni perduti
Brancati was a disillusioned Sicilian fascist when he came to write The Lost Years, which was first published (in a rapidly suppressed magazine) at the height of the fascist era in 1938. The ‘lost years’ are the years of youth and hope, (more...)
by Vitaliano Brancati Translated by P Creagh Original title: Bell’Antonio
Written by a Sicilian and set in Sicily, this book tells the bizarre story of Antonio, a young lady-killer whose dashing good looks allow him to exploit to the full the local conventions about male sexual prowess — the idea of the gallo (cock). (more...)
