Leonard Sciascia - 1912+1 a novel -1st UK edn

1912+1  a novel 

Leonard Sciascia

All through the year 1913, Gabriele D'Annunzio, the great Italian poet, wrote the date '1912+1'. Superstition: in northern Italy 13 is unlucky. But 1913 was a lucky year for him. It was the year of his exile, for debt, in Arcachon. Sciasia is impatient of D'Annunzio and of the cult of his poetry. The story begins with the 1913 Parliamentary elections, when universal suffrage first spoke. There was no dramatic swing to the Socialists, as had been predicted, and the novel explores the fixing of the election and its consequences for the protagonists

1st UK edition in VG condition with VG dustjacket

ISBN 0856358029  wt 283g

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