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An old novel, Brancati deceased in the fifties, but still a vibrant story about Italians, so beautiful, so sexy, so .... unable to do what seems to dominate their life. Set behind the background of the uprising of fascism in Italy and eventually WWII, it's all about arranging a job, a marriage, an affair, a ... whatever.
It's Italy, more specific Sicily, as we all know it from the past where nothing was done in an ordinary way but everything was arranged.
And then comes this man, the most beautiful of all and ..... he's not able to "perform". The world keeps on turning but for our protagonist everything stops.
Written with vivacity, humour, long and winding monologues full of Italian bravery and then again with hilarious scenes, confessions, bluffing.... Every page of this book breathes the south, the Italian style of living, having conversations and avoiding reality.
Read this book. ( )

Vitaliano Brancati (1907-1954) schreef Mooie Antonio in 1949, wanneer je weer vrijuit kon spotten met het fascisme van Mussolini. Maar het is toch vooral de Italiaanse macho die het moet ontgelden in deze zedenkomedie.
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