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Gli emigrati che dall'Abruzzo vanno a vivere e morire nel Nuovo Mondo, a costruire palazzi che non abiteranno, portano dentro la leggerezza degli obiettivi chiari e ostinati, il grido ruvido e profondo di tutte le passioni umane, dell'amore e della morte, la forza del bambino operaio che sa guardare in faccia e riconoscere l'umiliazione dello sfruttamento, la disperata ricerca di un Cristo che non sa dare una prova della sua esistenza.
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- Pagine: 326
- Data di uscita: 14-04-2014
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When i first saw this book at the bookshelves in the store, i imediattelly picked it up. I read "Christ in Concrete" on the cover and saw the buildings and i knew i had to read it. The title was provoking and the author was Italian, i knew i found something worth reading. My expectations were that t Leggi tutto
Why don't more people know about this book? An immigrant and second generation Italian-American tale written in 1939, also very much about class and exploitation--so much so that the movie version of it was banned in the US.
Published in the same year as The Grapes Of Wrath, Pietro Di Donato's first novel is in that same neglected vein of American working class literature: explicitly socialistic novels about the lives of the poor, the lives of the downtrodden. In this case, the story is largely autobiographical: the boo Leggi tutto
I have not read a more devastating first chapter. I'll never look at an old building again without thinking of what the true human cost was of building America's great cities.
I know I'm getting redundant, but this is another favorite urban narrative with a focus on the struggles of the italian immigrant community in New York in the early 20th century.
"Christ in Concrete" is both paean and prayer to the old immigrant Italian industrial worker. Like the laborers it depicts, "Concrete" lurches towards moments of joy without ever breaking through the unrelenting misery that is very much author Pietro di Donato's message. This is working class litera Leggi tutto
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